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clamps

noun as in handcuffs

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The Jets couldn’t keep the lowly New England Patriots at bay, so they’re going to be hard pressed to put the clamps on C.J.

Yet when students now enact the same energy, the university clamps down upon them, and I know a time will come in 50 years where Cornell will say, “Oh, look at the great Palestinian activism we had on campus at one point.”

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Ring-size steel hose clamps from the hardware store served as stand-in wedding bands.

In Plymouth, Michigan, Clips & Clamps doesn’t even use much imported steel.

"The latter control the folding of the longer DNA strand into virtually any shape at all -- akin to origami masters, who fold pieces of paper into intricate objects. As such, the clamps are a means of determining how the DNA origami objects combine to form the desired diamond lattice," says the LMU postdoctoral researcher.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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