tube
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“I was on a tube feeder then a puréed diet for a couple months. Then speech and swallow therapy. Then a vocal coach.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
A needle goes into my arm, and the blood goes out of my vein through a tube.
From Slate • May 9, 2026
Dr Wendy Aubrey, a senior anaesthetist, had intubated Preston – that is inserted a small tube into his throat to get oxygen to his lungs.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
I jury-rigged a heating element for our Kenmore refrigerator’s balky ice-maker water-feed tube.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 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
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