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fuse

[fyooz] / fjuz /


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This high-temperature firing process works somewhat like baking clay in a kiln, causing the zirconia particles to fuse together and form a dense, hardened material.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

Or someone lit the fuse a day early.

From Salon Aug. 11, 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

Thomas Pearce, 19, from Old Colwyn, Conwy, has Pfeiffer Syndrome, which causes the skull to prematurely fuse in the womb, distorting the shape of the head and face.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

In another moment the fuse was lit and sputtering.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

Since that time, chromosomes have repeatedly fused, separated, and been rearranged as new animal lineages emerged.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

Zhu fused international market principles with domestic realities in a construct his officials called a “socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 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

Even without the blue hair, they’d be hard to miss because they’re basically fused together from head to toe.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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

On food, the mainland is fusing with Hong Kong.

From Salon Aug. 9, 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 narrative conjures meaning from the Los Angeles cityscape by fusing a hodgepodge of textbook theories about the sprawling metropolis onto the gritty reality of daily life.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

Seeing what was happening had somehow made it worse, as if the rubber was fusing with her flesh.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo




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