attach
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It was chosen because this animal’s femur lacks a crest or raised bony protrusion – known as a trochanter – where part of the tail musculature would attach.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
The reason I’m in land is simple: You can’t attach a new data center to the grid anymore.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Mikko offered a hypothetical: a manufacturer, he said, could ship a car to Finland without its side mirrors and attach them locally, just enough to make it seem assembled there and dodge the tariff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
“When you attach multiple boxes, you create a physical gap between the speakers,” Vaissié explained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
“Oh? You don’t attach any importance to cell structure?”
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
But he now attaches a condition to that advice.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
It then attaches to c met receptors on satellite cells, the stem cells responsible for maintaining and repairing skeletal muscle.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Roberts described the injury as “discomfort” at the back of Ohtani’s knee, around where the hamstring attaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
He then attaches a pair of gloves to a fan, and the hands, now autonomous, proceed to “play” the improvised teapot instrument.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
The camshaft flies around the factory until a man unhooks it, attaches it to the engine block, growing eccentric now with fan blades, pipes, and spark plugs.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
The agency attached conditions that it hopes will protect consumers and expand broadband access.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
“It’s easy to get attached to someone when you’re fundamentally not compatible.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
But Steven derives a measure of comfort from the fact that the couple’s two young children are far more attached to him than to the barely present Lucy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Two turrets attached to the house, named Noel and Liam, were built using income from the 1996 shows.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Nicole led him outside the building to an attached enclosure with four more lions.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
Aggarwal tried to integrate AI, but said it felt like attaching an engine onto a horse-drawn carriage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It is extending the border fence out to sea, attaching long lines of orange buoys to the jetty which ships will then patrol to deter future swimmers.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
For most of his career, he found his relevance by attaching himself to those who were.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
The researchers modified DHI by attaching alkyl chains to its sp³ carbon atoms -- which have four bonds pointing in fixed 3D directions.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
Bobby Moch had a habit of calling for big tens by attaching someone’s name to the call—to give it more emotional impact.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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