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[toob, tyoob] / tub, tjub /


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Each tube measured approximately 300 nanometers across and 150 nanometers tall.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

"I need help to wash, dress and use the bathroom. I can only walk a few steps with help. I cannot eat or drink, everything has to go through my feeding tube," she added.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

As for concerns about why there might be plague in a test tube in Siberia: the lack of transparency from Russia is worrying for biosecurity experts.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

“We’re all stuck in this tube going somewhere, and there’s no way out,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

When he had lived upstairs, he had once tasted toothpaste when a careless guest left the cap off a tube.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary

An on-floor engineer remarked that they sell their scrap metal, and the price has skyrocketed—something they take as a sure indication that the economy is going down the tubes.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

This shuttle stack sits in flight configuration, almost exactly as it would look on the cusp of liftoff, besides the yellow torque tubes lining the orbiter’s white shell like external ribs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The 33-year-old’s rounds include sniffing for burning equipment that could indicate overheating, feeling tubes for cracks and looking for faulty lighting or broken power transformers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

That liquid could then rise through narrow channels toward the surface, much like material moving through lava or geyser tubes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

The two most common — strings and hollow tubes — will be discussed below, but first let's finish discussing what makes a good standing wave container, and how this affects music theory.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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

The spring was discovered several years ago, but only recently was it tubed so as to be available.

From Saratoga and How to See It by R. F. Dearborn

He may opt for safer winter sports like cross-country skiing or even tubing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

They’re doing it from this little antechamber through 7 feet of tubing.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

In one video, the workers unwind a line of black tubing, or conduit, from a spool the size of a small car, before feeding it into the ground.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Certain lots were found to have internal tubing tears, which risk under-delivering insulin to patients.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Tangles of rubber tubing sprouted out of the tank.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz


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