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glue

[gloo] / glu /


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The research found six candidates, but none worked on RAS, so Verdine proposed designing a synthetic glue instead.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

The results suggest that gluons, the particles that act as the glue holding quarks together, may play a key role in carrying and conserving baryon number.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

“Here is this meager little mustache that someone made me, and I glue it on every night,” he says, holding up two tiny hairy wings.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Is it time to stop using glue and labels on paper?

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

When we got Harry home, Joon and I made up some juk-rice and warm water all mixed together looking like glue.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

In 2012, Verdine launched a biotech, Warp Drive Bio, to look for molecular glues out in the wild.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

Nvidia glues everything together with software called CUDA, short for “compute unified device architecture.”

From Barron's May 29, 2026

But despite its water-sensitive glues and exposed hydraulics, the seahorse completed its route intact.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 3, 2026

Restoring a Rothko painting is a difficult task because "Rothko's mixture of pigments and resins and glues were quite complex", Mr Helm said.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2025

“It glues a whole formation of planes together in mid-air.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

And Taylor Farms would certainly top the list for anyone glued to a toilet bowl lately, thanks to the company’s alleged indiscretion handling lettuce laced with the “explosive diarrhea” parasite.

From Salon Aug. 19, 2026

Many through their hands, families are glued to the screen.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Dogs snored next to their owners, who were glued to their phones, screens lighting up weary faces.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

Bergstrom releases coins in unpredictable bursts so buyers stay glued to their screens.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

Every seat in the place is taken, all eyes except mine are glued to one of the flat-screen TVs, watching the Leafs battle the Montréal Canadiens.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

She refers to a "ridiculous" sketch from week two set in an Industrial Revolution-era factory, in which the cast were tasked with gluing the ends of fast food restaurant wraps together.

From BBC May 17, 2026

“How much can we add to it? How much can we get away with gluing onto this thing?”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 11, 2026

Other recent protests have involved activists blocking highway traffic in various parts of Italy, and gluing hands of activists to the protective glass of a Botticelli painting in the Uffizi Gallery.

From Washington Times Dec. 7, 2023

They and colleagues also measured birds’ appetites by gluing clay models of caterpillars onto branches.

From Science Magazine Oct. 19, 2023

The movie played on and then finished and then ran its credits, went to black screen, clicked off, rewound, started playing automatically again; I kept on gluing.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth




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