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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

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

Nightclubbing started some 350 years ago in Yoshiwara, near Tokyo, “a flashy pleasure quarter” of feudal Japan that served, Ms. Willetts writes, as “the ultimate pressure valve for the shogun’s otherwise disciplined regime.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

The man in the gray suit leaned closer to Zane, one thick- gloved hand still resting on the knob of the propane valve.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

The findings do not suggest that SSRIs generally damage healthy heart valves.

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

Both address bad valves without open-heart surgery, typically by going in through the femoral artery in the groin.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

And then he lifted up both gloved hands and fiddled with the valves until the balloon made a steep descent.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

Guided by this logic and encouraged by experts, cities, counties, airlines, and others banned valved masks early on in the pandemic.

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

This can be prevented by valving in hot air from the exhaust stacks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Up front, the new fork valving helps to keep the front end planted in turns, which allows for the rider to be more aggressive when entering a corner.

From Time Magazine Archive

The biggest changes are new, softer dual-rate springs and revised valving.

From Time Magazine Archive

So you go to the web site and plug in name, age, body weight, type of bike, riding skill level, height, etc., and it takes the parameters and builds a valving stack specifically for you.

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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