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
The proposed Defense, Security and Resilience Bank would plug the gap, said the nations involved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
There was never any place to plug in the vacuum, as every outlet was occupied by some member of the computer family.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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
An Amazon Fire Stick is a device that plugs into TVs and gives the viewer options to watch programmes from legitimate services including the BBC iPlayer and Netflix.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 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
When she takes him in his pram for his immunizations at the pediatrician’s, she stands outside the room and plugs up her ears.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Rarely is a fully charged car left unattended and plugged in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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
A meme circulated portraying the Luce with iPhone applications photo-shopped onto the top, and another showing the car upside down and plugged into an iPhone charger.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
“But we don’t know who plugged it in.”
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
Europe’s arms industry is slowly plugging the output gap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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
None of them had ever said it while they were sitting in the dark with mosquitoes plugging their nostrils or night sounds so loud around them they couldn’t think.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
