plunger
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Simmons compares the effect to pulling back the plunger on a sealed syringe filled with water.
From Science Daily ● May 13, 2026
The plunger of the syringe attached to the needle would be pulled back and, hopefully, urine quickly accumulated.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2025
After breaking the Dalek, the Doctor hands a plunger from his Tardis which marks the "origins of the iconic Dalek arm", the Doctor Who official Twitter page said.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2023
There was a joke about a toilet plunger microphone that went by too fast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
The boys held up while Candace pumped the lotion into her hand, jamming the plunger down over and over again until she had enough to turn sidewalk to Slip 'N Slide.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
Cold plungers tend to speak in the evangelical tone of the convert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
I always pulled on the little plungers to see if chocolate bars would appear magically without the requisite pennies.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
This turned out to be a case in which the plungers read the fine print more closely than the experts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2021
Alex has people ask her to sign plungers when she's out and about.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2019
“Excuse me, I got a shipment of plungers I need to unpack.”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
