tube
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Instead passengers are being advised to travel by rail and tube and to avoid using cars.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
For the entirety of his short life at the neonatal intensive care unit, he had the cannula through his nose to facilitate his breathing and a feeding tube between his lips.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
In March 1989, a midday tube rupture at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo sent cleaning solvent-filled steam into the air and trashed the paint jobs on about 2,000 neighboring cars and trucks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Starting at 6:30 a.m., she will take a barrage of tests: She’ll spit in a tube, check her temperature and measure her heart-rate variability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
In another she found a pencil, along with some paper clips, rubber bands, and a tube of strawberry-scented lip gloss.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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Miso, honey and red-pepper flakes deepen the mixture; pasta water turns it glossy enough to tuck itself into the tubes and folds of a sturdy short pasta.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
She later shared images of herself in hospital with tubes and wires sticking out of her body.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
On summer weekends, thousands show up in Guerneville with kayaks, canoes, inner tubes — just about anything that will float, preferably with a cooler attached.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The doctor asked Nevins about specific life-sustaining measures like feeding tubes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
The metal tubes lining manholes popped out of the pavement as the ground around them sank and settled.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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This device comes in two forms, tubed and tubeless.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
The Faroe Islands is a self-governing archipelago within the Kingdom of Denmark, where there is also a strong affinity for meat served in tubed form.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024
For trans men, testosterone and mastectomy were common, but genital surgeries remained rare, in part because phalloplasty had only minimally evolved beyond Gillies’s tubed pedicle of the 1940s.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2022
He was a tall Dane, holding a tubed black device that he called a smoking gun.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016
Mrs. Vervain began to look at the sketch through her tubed hand; the painter made a grimace.
From A Foregone Conclusion by William Dean Howells
I clearly remember seeing the movie when I was young and being very disturbed by the scene when the government arrives and drapes the family’s house in plastic sheets and tubing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Certain lots were found to have internal tubing tears, which risk under-delivering insulin to patients.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
Dow told customers this week that it plans to double a previously announced 15-cent-a-pound price hike for polyethylene, which is used to make products including bottles, bags, tubing and textiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
This scenic stretch of Texas Hill Country, usually a destination for tubing and camping, became the site of one of the state’s deadliest flood events in years.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2025
“The casements are in the alley behind the shop, stacked with regular tubing stock,” he said.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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