plug
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But hospital administrators have been pulling the plug on those types of arrangements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 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
A Vermont agency twice labeled his application incomplete, and Bhakta pulled the plug on the project in September.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
“You have enough paper there to plug every hole in all the barracks in Bonetti Ranch,” Mamá said, laughing.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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
The number of plugs at each site is increasing, and they are becoming more powerful, able to recharge cars more quickly, the study found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 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
He runs an extension cord out onto the landing and plugs it in.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
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
In the end, it really was plug-and-play simple: I unfolded a portable panel made by a company called EcoFlow, connected it to the provided inverter and plugged that into a standard outdoor outlet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Her very presence was like a power source, to be plugged into for love, or security, or a good fried-chicken dinner.
From "Forged by Fire" by Sharon M. Draper
And those attendees plugging the stadium into GPS for directions?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
The people plugging this shortfall are buyers of U.S. debt.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 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
Also, it helped Lydia promote Dearly’s music on her blog—so that she didn’t look like she was plugging her own boyfriend.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
