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  • plural of cord.
  • present tense form of cord (3rd person singular).
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cords

[kawrdz] / kɔrdz /




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Room Rater built an audience scoring Zoom backgrounds for lighting, depth, art and visible cords; books themselves became set dressing.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

To investigate how neutrophils influence healing, the researchers studied larval zebrafish, which are able to regenerate damaged spinal cords.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

At nearby Fallen Leaf Lake, Margaret Deanesly Ziegler has tried everything to keep bears out of her 1928 summer cabin—mats with nails, electric bungee cords, even a steel door.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

All of a sudden you’re sorting through a snake’s nest of dusty cables and cords, trying to tell a receiver from a hard drive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

So she applied more force, the motors in her arms hummed a little louder, and the cords snapped.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown


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