duct
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“She just pushed that duct tape up and shimmied right out of that chair,” Roebuck recalls.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
Because the last owner “thought duct tape would fix everything.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
Rain taught me that when people are negative, they’re trying to put duct tape on their own damaged souls.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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Parts of the access ducts they built to reach him have collapsed several times, highlighting the dangers the work poses to the rescuers as well as Gil.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
God, I wish I could seal up my tear ducts just so I could stop letting my mother hear me crying.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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