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[toob, tyoob] / tub, tjub /


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Early reports suggested that she fell ill after breaking a test tube.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

Then she woke up in a hospital with a tube down her throat and people she didn't know.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“We’re all stuck in this tube going somewhere, and there’s no way out,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Russian news outlet People of Baikal reported on Friday that the laboratory technician, whom it named as 28-year-old Darya Shipilova, may have contracted plague from a broken test tube.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

He took out a syringe to extract the virus from the vial and inject it into the clear plastic tube that delivered extra oxygen into various rooms each afternoon.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

Inside the machine, which looked like a large blender with a metal doughnut inside, blue and orange lights vibrated within glass tubes, while feathery electricity danced out the top.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Scabbards for Type 30 bayonets were made of bamboo, and bamboo tubes were given in place of the standard metal canteens.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

After thousands of passes over the Moon, researchers have assembled maps precise enough to identify new craters, landslides, spacecraft landers, seismic faults, and possible signs of lava tubes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

His breathing, feeding and toileting are all done through tubes at the neurological rebab centre where he is being cared for.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

From 1646 Torricelli’s experiment was widely performed, even though mercury was expensive and it continued to be difficult to get sufficiently sturdy long tubes sealed at one end.

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

For trans men, testosterone and mastectomy were common, but genital surgeries remained rare, in part because phalloplasty had only minimally evolved beyond Gillies’s tubed pedicle of the 1940s.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2022

He was a tall Dane, holding a tubed black device that he called a smoking gun.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016

This is the name which was formerly given to several springs in the immediate vicinity of the Excelsior, and embracing the Union and the Minnehaha, which have been recently tubed.

From Saratoga and How to See It by R. F. Dearborn

They’re doing it from this little antechamber through 7 feet of tubing.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

In one video, the workers unwind a line of black tubing, or conduit, from a spool the size of a small car, before feeding it into the ground.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 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

Later, after Aisha changed the IV tubing and raised the head of the bed like I’d asked, I thought about what had happened to me.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini


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