valve
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From one model: “She just named the synthesis—demurrage plus oral memory equals a valve that can’t be ghosted.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Any letup in tensions in the Middle East could therefore provide a release valve for the Treasury market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
An air valve had malfunctioned, according to the complaint, but Kettle refused to approve a fix afterwards because it would have led to train delays at Union Station.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Another issue identified by the investigation was that no fail-safe system - involving valve position indicators and gas pressure sensors - had been installed to alert the crew that the valve was failing.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
We have rags to catch the spit blown out the valve at the bottom of the slide, but I miss half the time.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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He’d return with images of abandoned stairwells, dilapidated neon signage, Art Deco theater facades, boiler room control valves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The captain credited the GasLog Salem crew with quickly shutting gas tank valves, helping contain the fire.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
The findings do not suggest that SSRIs generally damage healthy heart valves.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
“It’s conserve and then open up the valves again. Learn how to hold yourself in reserve a little bit and play around with energy—rather than just smash into it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
In the minutes following the earthquake, operators had opened the valves.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande distilled this widely held concern about valved masks with predictable precision in the New Yorker: “I protect me; I expose you,”
From Slate ● May 20, 2022
"It was flushed into the drainage system that leads to an oil water separator that is valved off from the detention basin," Mura said.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2022
He immediately switched from the baritone horn, a valved instrument, to trombone.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2021
Mr. Sax patented his family of valved brass instruments in 1846, as militarism was sweeping Europe.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2015
He stood up, still chewing, put on his hieb, coat, and boots, and slipped otterlike out the self-sealing valved door.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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This can be prevented by valving in hot air from the exhaust stacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They can have that type of data and information, and oil and spring rates and valving.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If he happens to lose it, he can, according to Diver Nohl, rise of his own accord by valving gas into the suit.
From Time Magazine Archive
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So you go to the web site and plug in name, age, body weight, type of bike, riding skill level, height, etc., and it takes the parameters and builds a valving stack specifically for you.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Dean Moran, opposite, eyes clenched, lips valving open as a cobra slithers out, a shiny cobra of half-digested toffee apple, candy floss, and three of Fryer Tuck's All-American Taste-Tastic Hot Dogs, highly recommended, writhing longer.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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