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tube

[toob, tyoob] / tub, tjub /


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In one deafening and dangerous laboratory mishap, a glass tube that was overfilled with gas exploded.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

"Since crinoid tube feet are used for feeding, you can think of them in a similar way to how we think about teeth in mammals," Wright explained.

From Science Daily Aug. 21, 2026

Ducking into Maryam Lashkari, Hodjat Salimi and Oscar Tuazon’s interactive sculpture — an enormous cardboard tube lying on its side — feels like entering a culvert or a bomb shelter.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Todd Montgomery pops the lid off a small tube and taps out hundreds of mosquitoes into the backyard of a suburban home outside Washington.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

Then he interviews her using a tube of Pringles as a microphone.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

Crews have already covered the fragile area with 4,500 linear feet of wattles, long tubes whose natural fibers hold soil in place, the National Park Service said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Fox had had parts of his spleen, pancreas, and small and large intestine removed, and yet his tubes and catheter were out and he was already walking with a walker.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

Miso, honey and red-pepper flakes deepen the mixture; pasta water turns it glossy enough to tuck itself into the tubes and folds of a sturdy short pasta.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

When touched, these cells fire toxic harpoon-like tubes designed to paralyse prey, such as plankton and small fish.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

Over and over, in the years after 1647, scientists filled long glass tubes, sealed at one end, with mercury and inverted them in baths of mercury.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Even during her year in London she had joined other girls in weekend bicycling excursions out of town, or tubed to Golder's Green or Shepherd's Bush in search of country walks.

From The Nest Builder by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

Certain lots were found to have internal tubing tears, which risk under-delivering insulin to patients.

From Barron's Apr. 30, 2026

When Nate Wallick takes his kids tubing on the Illinois River near their home in Peoria, he makes them wear football helmets.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

He took out a piece of surgical tubing and said, “Put this in your mouth.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 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

Gradually the plant engineer removed the tubing to use to patch other outworn equipment at the Hediondo.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck




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