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tube

[toob, tyoob] / tub, tjub /


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

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

She may have contracted the disease from a broken test tube, the outlet reported, without elaborating.

From Barron's ● 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

A chest tube was inserted to drain the fluid.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 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

The aim is to stand up the plant in Maryland by 2030 and build items such as torpedo tubes and eventually perhaps larger parts of the vessel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

That liquid could then rise through narrow channels toward the surface, much like material moving through lava or geyser tubes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

The frequencies from the BioCharger’s three coils and light from the tubes are said to penetrate the user’s cell walls to balance their cellular makeup, creating relaxation, clarity and, ultimately, fulfilling the user’s desired “recipe.”

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

He rested peacefully in his white bedsheets amid tubes going in and out of his body, and screens with green numbers and lines on them, and beeping noises.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea

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

When the rock was reached two streams were found issuing from a fissure; one of them was tubed, and water rose to the surface.

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

Corporate outings are up this season, Lacey says, partly because of non-ski offerings like nighttime disco tubing, which features laser lights, music and drinks around fire pits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

The seamless steel tubing I told Mr. Caton to order was delivered.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam




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