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[fyooz] / fjuz /


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Or someone lit the fuse a day early.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

This was the fuse which ignited the trouble.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

The bizarre imagery of war feeds back into civilian normality in a British pen stand and inkwell fashioned from the nose fuse of a German shell.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Sometimes mitochondria fuse together into large interconnected networks that generate energy efficiently.

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

“We must have used his fuse in one of our canisters. Just cut me a piece off that roll. Better make it good and long. Three hundred feet in the air is pretty high.”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

Flatworms are highly effective at rebuilding their own bodies, but these fused "Frankenstein" worms rejected tissue from unrelated individuals.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

But he also doesn’t expect to see a repeat of such a day, given so many factors had fused together to drive Friday’s action.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

“They had pieces of my studio fused to them. Iron, glass. … Literally anything around it that melted and could not turn to ash got stuck to them,” Bayouth said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Chip stacks fused with hybrid bonding have smaller gaps between layers than those fused via less-expensive thermal compression bonding, allowing more memory to be crammed into a smaller space.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

His neck plating was partially fused, melted from the explosion, but the dragon didn’t seem to be in danger of crashing immediately.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

He’s more positive about robotic brains becoming better at fusing multiple sources of data and turning that into action toward the end of this decade.

From MarketWatch Sep. 5, 2026

Then: “Even if we spend the evening at home this feeling of integration, or our interior and our exterior fusing together, occurs.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Her life’s work became fusing her past as an eighth-generation Appalachian with her future in a broader world.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The obsession with founders, meanwhile, has grown steadily stronger, fusing with the belief in personal-brand-as-business-model.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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