gasket

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On the Alto K98M, that click-clackiness is muffled by a rubbery internal gasket surrounding the keys.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

Another was out of service due to a blown head gasket.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024

"I'm satisfied that my wife and kids do not experience all the emotional turmoil that we experience here. We are like a gasket that blocks all the hard times that the war brings," he says.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2022

For the gasket to produce a seal, there needs to be about a 3/8-inch gap between the top of the toilet flange and the underside of the toilet china.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2022

“Manny, my mama would blow every gasket in a fifty-mile radius.”

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone