plug
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Numerous music acts have pulled the plug on their upcoming performances with Ed Sheeran in the latest twist of events in the singer’s tour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Met to cut 1,700 staff to plug £260m 'black hole'
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
So many people are so stuck in the struggle of day-to-day survival that they can barely plug into politics at all.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Another allows California to require that container ships and oil tankers docked at California ports plug into the state’s electrical grid or install technology to capture their emissions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Always chatty and in control, she is now the opposite, like someone has pulled her plug.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
Professor Nohria plugs the talent agency game into a basic diagram.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Others are placed onto table frames fixed to the ocean floor, and yet others are mounted onto plugs, screwed into a three-hole "cookie" and planted onto the reef.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The suite came with your standard front-of-the-plane amenities: a bigger screen with remote, bedding, skin-care lotion, socks, eye mask, a reusable water bottle, ear plugs and noise-canceling headphones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The base this plugs into is already large.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
I lift the plugs of dirt out of the hole.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
Standing in front of rows of what look like giant filing cabinets that contain Alps, he told AFP he was excited to have all of NASA's climate data plugged directly into the machine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
"We've shown that when tissue-resident macrophages don't have EP2 on their surfaces anymore or when that receptor is plugged up by a drug, this decline doesn't happen."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
They plugged Travis’s core values into an app one of the friends built to assess compatibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
On Thursday, workers excavated a 3-by 4-foot area to find the source of the water, plugged the leak and resumed preparing the street to open.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Haven’t we all been plugged in for years now, completely addicted to this world beyond reality?
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
His was keep plugging away and it will happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
"Our colleagues are plugging gaps, doing the impossible, working too many hours to back-fill, are experiencing burnout and ill health and have their private lives upended," Mr Kelly said.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Once a Hollywood heartthrob, George is now reduced to plugging Indian whisky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The people plugging this shortfall are buyers of U.S. debt.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
After plugging in my phone so I could get enough juice for it to power back on, I stuffed my schoolbooks back into my bag.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
