solder
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It was physically impossible to solder millions of connections by hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Over the past century, lead was used in paint, pipes, solder, and, most disastrously, automotive fuel.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
Military medics give first aid to a wounded Ukrainian solder in Bakhmut; farmers protest around Europe and gather outside the European Parliament in Brussels; France wins the handball European Championship in Germany.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
So from a young age, I learned how to solder motherboards and inventory microchips and would write marketing materials for COMDEX, which was the big computer trade show back then.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
“Rockets get too hot for solder, looks like. It’s going to take a weld after all.”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
In the shade of the barracks, the solders were cleaning their Kalashnikovs.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
More often than not, organizations, educational systems, companies and other systems just want good solders who do what they're told and say nothing.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024
They said they believed their father was the last survivor of the estimated 85,000 British, Australian and Indian solders who were captured when the British colony of Singapore fell to Japanese forces in February 1942.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
He then carefully inserts the gold wire into the needle, solders it to a connector and ensures it is electrically insulated.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2023
He charms the druggist’s wife into giving him a broken earphone; he salvages a solenoid from a discarded doorbell, solders it to a resistor, and makes a loudspeaker.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
I’m stripping a century of paint off the door hinges, and I soldered tight a loose brass light fixture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
For as long as I can remember, the events of that day have been present with me, soldered deeply into my psyche, though I wasn’t there to witness them firsthand.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2024
The play may seem like two one-acts soldered together, but there is a discernible throughline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
They also created a low-cost, printed circuit board with built-in digital microfluidics, which the emitter is soldered to.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024
He salvages the inferior Soviet equipment, milled from marginal steel, clumsily soldered; it’s all so unsystematic.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
One challenge is that piezoelectric resonators physically vibrate, which means they cannot be attached to circuit boards using standard soldering techniques.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2026
Today, the 33-year-old earns $45 an hour—brazing, welding and soldering pipes for a local contractor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
Armed with a soldering iron and good intentions, Tuna paid tribute to what the fires took.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
At a hearing in Brasília, he admitted trying to open the monitor with a soldering iron on Friday until he "came to his senses", court documents show.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
She and cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov took turns conducting welding and soldering experiments.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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