pipe

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The team created the nanoscrolls by rolling flat MXene flakes into tiny tubular structures that are about ten thousand times thinner than a water pipe.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

The network had been shuttered since 2015, when a corroded pipe burst and caused one of the state’s worst oil spills.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

During an in-flight refueling mission, a rigid pipe is lowered from the tanker part of the aircraft and inserted into a small receptacle on the receiving aircraft.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Absent burning down the house, Nelson told me that’s probably a pipe dream, at least for now.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

Did he know she smoked a cob pipe?

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck