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fuse

[fyooz] / fjuz /


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Payne instructed Evans that if that happened, she was to grab his arm, pick up the specially engineered torch that would never extinguish and light the fuse ball together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Or someone lit the fuse a day early.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

This was the fuse which ignited the trouble.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Black persists in his brush drawings of the late 1940s—sumptuous, if monochromatic, ink-on-paper works, like 1948’s “Interior With Window and Palm,” that seem to fuse painting and drawing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Then I’d fight the thing, and it’d take about eight minutes before the fuse got lit.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

They offer deinfibulation - a procedure that can be carried out during pregnancy that to separate fused tissue and enable safer births.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Their vertebrae fused, while mineral deposits caused the tissue between the bones to become abnormally hard.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

But he also doesn’t expect to see a repeat of such a day, given so many factors had fused together to drive Friday’s action.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

“They had pieces of my studio fused to them. Iron, glass. … Literally anything around it that melted and could not turn to ash got stuck to them,” Bayouth said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

The bus was a double-length one, two buses fused together like conjoined twins by an accordion-pleated rubber seam.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

He’s more positive about robotic brains becoming better at fusing multiple sources of data and turning that into action toward the end of this decade.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

The obsession with founders, meanwhile, has grown steadily stronger, fusing with the belief in personal-brand-as-business-model.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

It was a bet that fusing the company’s cable channels, which included Bravo and MSNBC, and its broadcast network, with Comcast’s distribution pipes would make it a stronger company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

You talk in the documentary about how the big idea at the outset of your solo career was fusing rock and dance music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

Leo slammed both gates shut and summoned fire to his hands, fusing the locks.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan




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