plunger
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One playworker noticed a child standing on a manhole with a plunger and watched quietly to make sure he didn’t throw the object.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
In my mind, a fire extinguisher often gets put into the same “essentials” bucket as a plunger for your house: You should probably buy one before you need it.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Simmons compares the effect to pulling back the plunger on a sealed syringe filled with water.
From Science Daily ● May 13, 2026
You can’t just burn you house down and walk away, so you grab a plunger.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2025
Four: Hold the nib above the ink bottle and turn the plunger counterclockwise again until three drops of ink fall back into the bottle.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
We don’t know who was pushing the plungers.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
Cold plungers tend to speak in the evangelical tone of the convert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Housebound plungers deprived of access to movies, live sports and other forms of collective entertainment played at investing in meme stocks such as GameStop and dogecoins and other weird cryptocurrencies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024
Instead of leaving town as planned, Mr. Sherman grabbed a set of antique toilet plungers and headed downtown to Wall Street, to pass the hat as a sidewalk juggler and mime.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
“Excuse me, I got a shipment of plungers I need to unpack.”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
