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tube

[toob, tyoob] / tub, tjub /


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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

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

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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