glue
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"She was our rock, our glue, holding us together through everything."
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Still, some within and around the court saw him as the court’s glue, bringing levity in his interactions with his colleagues and avoiding hard-edge commentary in his opinions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Today, iCloud is the glue for Apple’s ecosystem.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Others argued the particles stiffened the surrounding material like glue.
From Science Daily ● May 13, 2026
But one thing I’d clung to longer and harder than Arletta being the best thing since hot glue was that Momma was unforgivable.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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Nvidia glues everything together with software called CUDA, short for “compute unified device architecture.”
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
When counterfeiters make fake versions—phony name-brand sneakers, for instance—they don’t use the same materials, glues, dyes and paints that the legitimate manufacturer does.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 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
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For the first time the whole game, all the players glued their eyes to the plate, conversations and catch-ups stopped mid-sentence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
At a time when housing market stats reflect the same old slump, investors will keep their eyes glued to the 10-year yield.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
Admani spent the day glued to his ultrawide monitor, watching SpaceX stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
For months, many people have had their eyes glued to the Twin Cities through the lens of international headlines.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
In addition, more than sixty million people around the world sat glued to their television sets staring at the same scene.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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“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
"The spermine is like cheese that connects the long, thin noodles without gluing them together, making them easier to digest."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2025
New offences were created including interfering with national infrastructure, "locking on" – chaining or gluing yourself to something – and tunnelling underground.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 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
A little apart from them, an old woman was heading arrows: slotting needle-fine flakes of flint into the shafts, then gluing them in place with a paste of pine.blood and beeswax.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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