plug
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Nearing the end of his nine-show residency at Madison Square Garden on Thursday, the 64-year-old rock icon apologized to fans when he had to pull the plug nearly an hour early.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The embarrassing stories kept landing, and the man in charge of the Pentagon now needs the Justice Department’s help to plug a hole he cannot plug alone.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Kernowfornia was the successor to Making Waves, which itself pulled the plug back in 2018 because of debts.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Making the planes, warships, electronics and weapons to plug those gaps is advancing frustratingly slowly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
“Gloria sent me. The lights are about to go on. And she wants you to plug them in this year.”
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
The base this plugs into is already large.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
When the antibody plugs into the capillary’s transferrin receptor, a portal through the blood-brain barrier opens up.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
To charge it at home, I used my Level 2 charger with an adapter, since China uses different plugs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
There are plugs of grasses and gallon pots of white sage, purple sage, California buckwheat, long-stem buckwheat, deerweed, narrow leaf milkweed and coyote bush.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
She snatches a clomp of moss and plugs the hole with it.
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
This gap is plugged - sometimes only partially - by parental support, part-time jobs and debt.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Just because we’re plugged into those networks doesn’t mean we don’t care about privacy anymore.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
He repeatedly plugged his new autobiographical show “860” that’s headed to Broadway in the fall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
Once she’s plugged in, charged and becomes sentient like the rest of the toys in Bonnie’s room, Lily wastes no time shaking things up.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
Layla asked as she plugged in the bottle warmer and filled it with a cup of water from the bathroom faucet.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
The people plugging this shortfall are buyers of U.S. debt.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Giuliani said that he and other security planners had been "planning with one hand tied behind our back" due to the shutdown, saying "we are still plugging a few of those holes".
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
One key skill for the coming bot invasion: plugging in cables.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
Perhaps plugging numbers into this formula brings it to life, just as the baker brings a recipe to life by mixing ingredients in a bowl and baking them in the oven?
From Slate ● May 25, 2026
The blackness was wrapping itself around Conor’s eyes now, plugging his nose and overwhelming his mouth.
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
