tube
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Starting at 6:30 a.m., she will take a barrage of tests: She’ll spit in a tube, check her temperature and measure her heart-rate variability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Rescuers had provided him with more than ten liters of water to keep him hydrated via a hose and installed a tube to provide him with oxygen.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
"Biochemists more than a decade before us showed that TPP1 increases the activity of telomerase in a test tube, but we never knew that this actually happened clinically," he said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026
They brandished the Mexican flag seemingly everywhere: on banners, painted on cheeks, emblazoned on Jaimes’ tube top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Its outer walls are made entirely of rounded glass, but a circular tube of dark metal encapsulates the glass walls.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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Squeezed at the edge of the scene is a table with the tools of an artist scattered about—palette knife, tubes of paints, a can of brush cleaner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Those gases are then analyzed and passed through specially coated capillary tubes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Rescuers were able to insert tubes to provide water, hydration fluids, protein shakes and medicine to Gil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
I ask Winkworth's colleague Phil Williams if the scaffold tubes are too hot to handle.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Something about the inner tubes seemed to disturb her deeply, and she attacked them with frightening gusto.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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This device comes in two forms, tubed and tubeless.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
The Faroe Islands is a self-governing archipelago within the Kingdom of Denmark, where there is also a strong affinity for meat served in tubed form.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024
The opening of the tubed slide was small, and I thought I should lie down to avoid whacking my head.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2017
He was a tall Dane, holding a tubed black device that he called a smoking gun.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016
Mrs. Vervain began to look at the sketch through her tubed hand; the painter made a grimace.
From A Foregone Conclusion by Howells, William Dean
I clearly remember seeing the movie when I was young and being very disturbed by the scene when the government arrives and drapes the family’s house in plastic sheets and tubing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Certain lots were found to have internal tubing tears, which risk under-delivering insulin to patients.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
The original system, which used electric coils, failed during the legendary Ice Bowl in 1967, but the modern hydronic system, installed in 1997, relies on heated water circulated through underground tubing and is reliable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
This scenic stretch of Texas Hill Country, usually a destination for tubing and camping, became the site of one of the state’s deadliest flood events in years.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2025
Marty had fallen to his knees, and was being pulled back toward the bed by the tubing.
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
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