plug
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The parties had been set to negotiate in late August, but Bonta pulled the plug on those sessions, accusing Paramount of leaking misinformation and “playing games.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Clark said "most labs have different ways of being able to pull the plug", including Anthropic, but said policymakers may need to enforce having one.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Following a bitter standoff over a proposed salary cap and revenue-sharing, Acting Commissioner Bud Selig officially pulled the plug on the 1994 baseball season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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
It had a plug on one end and a socket on the other.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
Professor Nohria plugs the talent agency game into a basic diagram.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The base this plugs into is already large.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
If she plugs up her ears, she doesn’t hear the buzz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
When the antibody plugs into the capillary’s transferrin receptor, a portal through the blood-brain barrier opens up.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
“He won’t get away. My assistant, Henry Ryan, removed the spark plugs from the truck.”
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
It argued that going private would provide insulation from volatile quarterly earnings releases, or that Mattel could be plugged into another company’s established distribution flywheel, avoiding the costly effort of building one from scratch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
They are simply plugged into the nearest socket and work by drawing in warm air, cooling it, and venting heat outside through a window via a pipe or ducting.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
He got the antenna wire to reach to the kitchen window, and he plugged the set in there so they could hear the music in the yard.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
His was keep plugging away and it will happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
She told The Sunday Times they were "plugging away".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Rather than plugging into the Texas power grid, Project Kilby will have its own on-site power plant fueled by Chevron’s local natural-gas production.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The people plugging this shortfall are buyers of U.S. debt.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Jaya nudged her brother out of the way and started plugging parts back into the robot’s chest.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
