attach
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One of the biggest obstacles is controlling how nanoparticles attach to one another.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
At one Saturday morning workshop in Brighton, Jayne Eagle shows her students how to attach a patch of fabric behind a tear so the cat-face design peeps through.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Struggles to grow ad revenue reveal the downside of AI for Internet companies as consumers rely more on chatbots and agents to which tech companies have yet to attach ad features.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
But earlier this week, a controversial pilot program that would attach hundreds of license plate readers to streetlights around the city cleared the City Council, and it is expected to launch in the near future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
“Oh? You don’t attach any importance to cell structure?”
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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Even then, the streamer attaches some pragmatic caveats to his disdain.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
Even so, a certain perplexity attaches to his supposed realism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
When one of these receptors attaches to a specific protein on a cancer cell, it signals the T cell to attack and kill that cell.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Thomasin McKenzie plays a young woman, Alyce, steeped in her own trauma and loss, who attaches herself to the ploughman, and her ability to express wide-eyed, barely contained hysteria and fear is unmatched.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The camshaft flies around the factory until a man unhooks it, attaches it to the engine block, growing eccentric now with fan blades, pipes, and spark plugs.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Skeletal muscles are the muscles attached to bones that allow us to walk, lift objects, maintain posture, and perform other voluntary movements.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
In June, she had surgery, which included a hysterectomy and a full bowel shave to try to remove endometriosis tissue which attached her womb to her bowel.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
In a separate post, he shared a photo of Downer and her dog, Rex, and wrote in the caption that his sister was very attached to the dog and had last been seen in Koreatown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
The Telluride HEV is the sort of vehicle families get emotionally attached to, giving them affectionate nicknames like Bessie or Maude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
Still attached, the two capsules began spinning around each other.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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In late 2024, the lawyer asked the court to reduce the support, attaching some company records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
She turned a maroon tablecloth into a makeshift curtain, attaching it to the French doors with suction cups.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
He’s just done it more quietly, without attaching the force of his weird personality as a condition.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
The tiny particles produce a light signal after attaching to the chemical they are designed to detect.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The local “ground crew” set up our radio by attaching it to the poor Rosalie’s battery and sticking the antenna up a tree that conveniently hid the car from the air, as well.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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