glue
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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 right dose protects them, but too much can stunt their growth or glue their jaws shut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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
“I depend on you, but I know you can handle it. You’re the glue holding the three of us together.”
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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
“He even cuts out little letters and glues them to the paper.”
From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar
It has nothing to do with efficiency, and actually, for something with a reputation so closely glued to antiestablishment aesthetics and fashions of the counterculture, is quite frivolous if you think about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
"It's this common misconception that young people always want to be inside, glued to their phones," Henry smiles.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Bergstrom releases coins in unpredictable bursts so buyers stay glued to their screens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
On a reconnaissance mission, Jessie climbs to the roof and discovers the root of this strange standoffishness: Every child, in every window, has their face glued to a screen.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
She had spent the entire time with her eyes glued to a piece of paper, her voice monotone and rushed, and she had later confessed to Moss that she felt miserable about it.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
He likens what the group is doing to “building a puzzle out of thousands of other puzzles, gluing it together to make a new thing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
She refers to a "ridiculous" sketch from week two set in an Industrial Revolution-era factory, in which the cast were tasked with gluing the ends of fast food restaurant wraps together.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
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
They and colleagues also measured birds’ appetites by gluing clay models of caterpillars onto branches.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 19, 2023
In order to help me do this, he makes a Mobius strip for me by cutting out a long slip of paper, twisting it once and gluing the ends together.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
