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Karl ducks into a shop and comes out with a bottle of water, flinging it under a bungee cord attached to his trolley, which he had made in Nicaragua early in the adventure.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
They used blood stem cells from cord blood.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Kehn holds the trap’s pull cord in his clenched fist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
One of the major challenges in regenerative medicine is understanding why zebrafish can recover from spinal cord injuries while humans generally cannot.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Just saying it gave me immense relief, as though a cord had loosened from around my throat.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Room Rater built an audience scoring Zoom backgrounds for lighting, depth, art and visible cords; books themselves became set dressing.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Inflammation subsided, and the spinal cords regenerated perfectly, even though the neutrophils themselves were no longer present.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
When I did Company, I had to take care of my vocal cords so I didn’t talk basically the whole day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
At 43, Laferte’s vocal cords have reached a decadent peak — angry and ragged, deliciously wounded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
‘Those cords have cut me like wires; but my feet are getting warm again. I could stagger on now. What about you, Merry?’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
The most practical option was an old-school corded phone and a cellular-to-landline adapter.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
She still packs corded earphones for in-flight entertainment systems along with Apple AirPods Pro 3, which she loves for their size and noise-canceling capabilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
The analysis of corded ware vessels also challenges previous considerations.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
The work had been transformed, from an intimate album I’d listened to on an iPod with corded earbuds that didn’t stay put into a lavish stage production with sets, actors, choreography.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
The box was corded, the card nailed on.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
I rescued an abandoned set of chairs missing their woven seats, watched a YouTube video on cording and turned them into living-room fixtures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
Invest in a leather sofa or chair if you love the look and feel, or use it for welt or cording if you want just a touch.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
Bubble wrap might crush your standard ribbon bows, so the Container Store suggests using more wire-edged ribbon or tulle, which can be fluffed out, or cording.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2020
Jewel-toned blue, green and purple nylon was cut into pretty sleeveless dresses slit and ruched with cording detail to softly accent the body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2016
His chief method of earning money, or rather of making up the "Cr." side of his accounts, was by cutting and cording wood.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett
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