glue
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Equipped with super glue and expanding foam, the mystery vigilante has defaced dozens of newly installed parking meters across North Berwick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Cholesterol helps cells remain attached to one another, functioning like a form of biological glue.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
The company behind Sharpie markers and Elmer’s glue said Friday it now expects full-year normalized earnings per share to be 73 cents to 77 cents, up from 56 cents to 60 cents previously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"The packaging industry has existing machines which are all designed for glue materials. Some kind of redesign is probably necessary, and this is our biggest challenge," says Hermann Ultraschall's Baumann.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Maybe Holly had some wrongheaded ideas about Arletta, but if she knew when a glue gun was in order, she wasn’t all bad.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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
"These often have added chemicals, flavourings, stabilisers and glues, are often lacking many real nutrients and could have a detrimental effect on someone's health," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
But despite its water-sensitive glues and exposed hydraulics, the seahorse completed its route intact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2026
“He even cuts out little letters and glues them to the paper.”
From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar
Just when people thought, “Oh, these kids brought up on social media, TikToks, they’re glued to their phones.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Dogs snored next to their owners, who were glued to their phones, screens lighting up weary faces.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The cut-outs themselves evolved over time, taking on various compositional and even accidental patterns on Matisse’s studio walls, before being glued by assistants onto a final surface.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Fans will then be glued to the table showing the best third-placed teams, hoping that Scotland can remain among the top eight sides who will progress.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
A couple of chairs, one of the tables I sanded and restained, a teapot with a broken handle I glued back together.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
He likens what the group is doing to “building a puzzle out of thousands of other puzzles, gluing it together to make a new thing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
This could lead to an overwhelming amount of data for those using the app, gluing users to their smartphones.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
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
They were made by gluing different kinds of seeds to heavy paper and had been left on the floor to dry.
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
