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Duct tape is also how one council tenant in west London told us he had tried to make his windows safer, because he was so worried about his nine-year-old daughter.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2025

Duct tape also was used in two other recent airline incidents, including passenger Maxwell Berry, 22, being tied to the back of a seat on a Frontier flight from Philadelphia to Miami on Aug. 3.

From Fox News • Aug. 11, 2021

Duct tape, white cleats … and a lot of advanced calculus.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2021

Duct tape and carpet tacks were ripped up, and the team lifted an enormous floor cloth painted with cobblestones and folded it faster than most people can manage a fitted sheet.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2019

It was worse than the Duct Tape Incident, because I always knew that the Kevin Richmans of the world didn’t like me.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green