solder
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Tin is an element vital to the artificial intelligence industry, used as solder to attach microchips to circuit boards and bond together other electronics in data centres.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
It was physically impossible to solder millions of connections by hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Over the past century, lead was used in paint, pipes, solder, and, most disastrously, automotive fuel.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
Khalife didn’t give his name, but did reveal he was a serving solder.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024
“Still, we’ve none too much time to make four days’ supply of solder.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
In the shade of the barracks, the solders were cleaning their Kalashnikovs.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
More often than not, organizations, educational systems, companies and other systems just want good solders who do what they're told and say nothing.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024
They said they believed their father was the last survivor of the estimated 85,000 British, Australian and Indian solders who were captured when the British colony of Singapore fell to Japanese forces in February 1942.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
He then carefully inserts the gold wire into the needle, solders it to a connector and ensures it is electrically insulated.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2023
He charms the druggist’s wife into giving him a broken earphone; he salvages a solenoid from a discarded doorbell, solders it to a resistor, and makes a loudspeaker.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
I’m stripping a century of paint off the door hinges, and I soldered tight a loose brass light fixture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
They also created a low-cost, printed circuit board with built-in digital microfluidics, which the emitter is soldered to.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024
I knew his name — the same soldered to the email’s sign-off — and had a vague idea of what he looked like.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2024
She grew up in Fremont, Calif., where her dad launched a startup out of their garage and she soldered motherboards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
He salvages the inferior Soviet equipment, milled from marginal steel, clumsily soldered; it’s all so unsystematic.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
The term derives from the white crystalline powder used in cleaning, soldering, glass making and in pesticides, which in centuries past was sold as a cure-all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
At a hearing on Sunday, Bolsonaro admitted trying to open his ankle monitor with a soldering iron until he "came to his senses", court documents show.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
In a video made public by the court on Saturday, Bolsonaro gave a different version of events: he said he had used a soldering iron on the monitoring bracelet out of "curiosity."
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
"The project offered a wealth of learning opportunities. I've extended many skills, including programming, soldering and physics applications," Ms. Xu said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2025
“I think he has put soldering quite out of his mind,” said Dr. Trefusis.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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