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valve

[valv] / vælv /


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Transcatheter aortic valve replacement sales, which make up the bulk of Edwards Lifesciences’ top line, rose 11% to $1.26 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Edwards Lifesciences EW -0.65%decrease; down pointing triangle narrowed its full-year sales guidance after recording double-digit growth in the latest quarter, boosted by growth in its transcatheter aortic valve replacement division.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The recent correction has served as a necessary relief valve, reducing the risk of a blow-off top while allowing leadership to broaden.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Turning the valve back on gets oil moving, but it takes time to optimize the tanker/refiner matching.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Even though he had been seeing her outfits for years, the sight of his mother in full regalia always slightly appalled his valve.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

The captain credited the GasLog Salem crew with quickly shutting gas tank valves, helping contain the fire.

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

The strongest signal appeared in people whose mitral valves had already begun to degenerate.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

A year earlier, suspected Russian hackers remotely manipulated valves on a Norwegian hydroelectric dam.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

That means parents will have few relief valves to make the payments manageable.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

Operators also needed to find a way to open two valves without working controls.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Still today, the World Health Organization advises against using valved N95s.

From Slate May 20, 2022

"It was flushed into the drainage system that leads to an oil water separator that is valved off from the detention basin," Mura said.

From Salon Mar. 23, 2022

He immediately switched from the baritone horn, a valved instrument, to trombone.

From Washington Post May 11, 2021

Mr. Sax patented his family of valved brass instruments in 1846, as militarism was sweeping Europe.

From New York Times Nov. 6, 2015

He stood up, still chewing, put on his hieb, coat, and boots, and slipped otterlike out the self-sealing valved door.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

I have my own idea about what I want to do for a valving system.'

From Time Magazine Archive

The secondary piston valving was then stiffened to make the shock more stable and progressive, as well as to give it more control later in the stroke.

From Time Magazine Archive

Much weight is saved by better fuel tanks, pumps, valving, etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the computer, when you hit print, actually spits it out and says, 'Okay, here's the spring, here's the preload, here's the oil level, here's where you put the clickers, and here's the internal valving.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dean Moran, opposite, eyes clenched, lips valving open as a cobra slithers out, a shiny cobra of half-digested toffee apple, candy floss, and three of Fryer Tuck's All-American Taste-Tastic Hot Dogs, highly recommended, writhing longer.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell




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