duct
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He's perhaps most famous for purchasing an art piece consisting of a banana duct taped to a wall for $6.2m and then eating it.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Castro said he had sealed windows at his home with duct tape and filled up extra water containers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
Amgen said in its quarterly earnings release in late April that the drug “demonstrates effectiveness and a favorable benefit-risk profile,” and said that vanishing bile duct syndrome hadn’t affected patients in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
“We can no longer keep our city together with duct tape and slurry,” said Rae Huang, a leftist community organizer, at a recent candidate forum on housing and transportation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
She scooped a handful of silver coins from Hedge’s baseball cap, grabbed duct tape from the coach’s supply bag and began taping coins around her blade.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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The actor, his voice slightly shaky, gave a moving description of grief as “unexpressed love” that quickly activated tear ducts.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Some cases involved vanishing bile duct syndrome, a liver condition characterized by the progressive destruction of bile ducts in the liver, the agency said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
When F. nucleatum was introduced directly into breast ducts, it caused metaplastic and hyperplastic lesions, noncancerous changes where cells either grow excessively or shift into a different type.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2026
The same is true for keeping air ducts clean.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026
"Nothing unusual," the fireman replied, "especially in weather like this, no ventilation, snow packed over the ducts."
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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