valve
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In January 2025, they found methane gushing from the valve on a well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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
A key pressure-release valve for global supply is also facing new threats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Engineers had to physically shut the valve because it was not responding to electrical control.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
He was even planning to visit the factory when his valve was better to see how he could improve conditions there.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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
Medtronic, which like Boston Scientific makes heart valves and other cardiac devices, was hacked in April with no impact to operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The captain credited the GasLog Salem crew with quickly shutting gas tank valves, helping contain the fire.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Repeated exposure to live P. gingivalis caused the bacteria to accumulate in the aortic valves of mice, leading to greater valve calcification and symptoms of aortic stenosis.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Finally Percy went aboard the pirate ship and opened the flood valves.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Guided by this logic and encouraged by experts, cities, counties, airlines, and others banned valved masks early on in the pandemic.
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
The biggest changes are new, softer dual-rate springs and revised valving.
From Time Magazine Archive
Much weight is saved by better fuel tanks, pumps, valving, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
New springs and valving quickly took care of any of the complaints associated with the stock stuff.
From Time Magazine Archive
Up front, the new fork valving helps to keep the front end planted in turns, which allows for the rider to be more aggressive when entering a corner.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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