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glue

[gloo] / glu /


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The results suggest that gluons, the particles that act as the glue holding quarks together, may play a key role in carrying and conserving baryon number.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

Cholesterol helps cells remain attached to one another, functioning like a form of biological glue.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

"The packaging industry has existing machines which are all designed for glue materials. Some kind of redesign is probably necessary, and this is our biggest challenge," says Hermann Ultraschall's Baumann.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

“We haven’t been able to get it out. We can’t put poison out because we have a little dog. So we have put some glue traps or something.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

In the kitchen, we slice peeled bananas the long way and smear peanut butter onto the flat sides like glue.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

Nvidia glues everything together with software called CUDA, short for “compute unified device architecture.”

From Barron's May 29, 2026

When counterfeiters make fake versions—phony name-brand sneakers, for instance—they don’t use the same materials, glues, dyes and paints that the legitimate manufacturer does.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 17, 2026

But despite its water-sensitive glues and exposed hydraulics, the seahorse completed its route intact.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 3, 2026

Restoring a Rothko painting is a difficult task because "Rothko's mixture of pigments and resins and glues were quite complex", Mr Helm said.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2025

Sweat glues my tank top and basketball shorts to my skin.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

Dogs snored next to their owners, who were glued to their phones, screens lighting up weary faces.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

I’ll be glued to my television when kickoff arrives at 3 p.m.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

For 39-year-old viewer Mpiletso Motumi, it was the strong female leads that kept her glued to the screen in Johannesburg.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

For the first time the whole game, all the players glued their eyes to the plate, conversations and catch-ups stopped mid-sentence.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

Inside cells, ribosomes seemed to stay glued together with absolute equanimity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

If using a homemade winder,*** consider gluing or taping the string to the winder so that your string stays connected if you happen to use all of your string to fly the kite.

From Los Angeles Times May 3, 2026

"The spermine is like cheese that connects the long, thin noodles without gluing them together, making them easier to digest."

From Science Daily Nov. 27, 2025

The priceless piece was the second from the National Gallery to be targeted by JSO in 2022, with two activists gluing themselves to John Constable's The Hay Wain in July.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2024

Other recent protests have involved activists blocking highway traffic in various parts of Italy, and gluing hands of activists to the protective glass of a Botticelli painting in the Uffizi Gallery.

From Washington Times Dec. 7, 2023

After hours of gluing, stuffing, and tying, we hear the doorbell ring.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez




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