clamp
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So as we become ever more online in public, will we see increasing attempts to clamp down on loudcasting?
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Elfers also said it was very common for a boat engine, which does not have a closed cooling system like a car, to have a hose that pops or a hose clamp that fails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
For this study, the Yale team successfully used a dual patch clamp technique on fully intact mouse retinas.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
He has previously spoken out against measures to clamp down on illegal migration, and called the US administration's treatment of immigrants "inhuman".
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
And the sounds, which started out peculiar and interesting, soon turned into being the sort of confusion that made you want to clamp your hands ’crost your ears.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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In the following months he bought accessories such as awning screw-in pegs for £15.98 and wheel clamps and keys for £119.98.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
And as Miami prepares to face No. 6 Ole Miss in the national semifinal, they’ll aim to put the clamps on star quarterback Trinidad Chambliss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
As the government clamps down on overseas workers, migrants spoke to AFP about working in the shadows.
From Barron's ● Dec. 19, 2025
"When we think about lung repair, it's not just about turning things on -- it's about removing the clamps that normally keep these cells from acting like stem cells," says Dr. Brownfield.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2025
I removed two clamps on the undercarriage and it dropped right out.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Sister Carren Herring asked as the Haitian man walked toward the field office, where he would reemerge from hours later with a GPS tracker clamped around an ankle.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
It drives me absolutely bonkers that the industry hasn’t clamped down on it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
With the understanding that nothing dispels an air of mystery like a hashtag, a number of modern speakeasy successors have clamped down on social-media posts or even phone use altogether.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
It is not the first time the UK's ad regulator has clamped down on crypto adverts.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
“I didn’t think you were a know-it-nothing, I thought you were…” She clamped a hand over her mouth.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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The PM has to walk a very fine line between clamping down on them and selling the UK as a good place for them to be.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Then I found the stage and I found my voice and instead of clamping it down, I could let it out, whatever it was, wherever it came from.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
Research, however, shows that while delayed cord clamping can raise the baby’s hemoglobin levels, it does not have the same effect on vitamin K.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
To test whether these filopodia function as silent synapses, the researchers used a modified patch clamping technique.
From Science Daily ● May 6, 2026
I backed up a couple of steps, went into a crouch, swung my gun arm up, straight out stiff, left hand clamping right wrist, like I saw on TV.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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