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fuse

[fyooz] / fjuz /


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He said on the first occasion Peden visited he changed the socket and the fuse, and on the second "it was just the fuse".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

A fuse on one drone didn’t work and two other drones crashed, we believe, before reaching their targets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Instead, all of the tedious, disappointing, ridiculous components fuse, creating a viewing experience that is occasionally infuriating in the moment, but leaves the mind the second the credits roll.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

But it’s to the city’s west, where suburbs fuse into the coastal pines, that fire hazards have soared.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

“Sherman, this fuse is three years old. My guess is it’s going to burn real fast. As soon as I light it, we’ve got to make a run for it. Are you ready?”

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

But in the 1960s, she fused her mandala-faces and landscapes into dense, mysterious worlds—relief-like frontal fields in which deities, animals and foliage, woven together, blossom and interchange between figure and ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

They offer deinfibulation - a procedure that can be carried out during pregnancy that to separate fused tissue and enable safer births.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

As the fused worms began rejecting foreign tissue, Chai detected a rise in activin followed by chronic inflammation.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

But he also doesn’t expect to see a repeat of such a day, given so many factors had fused together to drive Friday’s action.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Unable to afford the suit's matching top, she's been reduced to waddling the streets much like two women fused together in some sort of cruel experiment.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Specialists were able to identify Nancy's condition, which is caused by parts of the skull fusing together before birth, merely by visual observation and she was then offered reconstructive surgery on the NHS.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

He’s more positive about robotic brains becoming better at fusing multiple sources of data and turning that into action toward the end of this decade.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

It was a bet that fusing the company’s cable channels, which included Bravo and MSNBC, and its broadcast network, with Comcast’s distribution pipes would make it a stronger company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Inspired by rap icon Tupac Shakur, turbaned Sidhu built his global following by fusing Punjabi songs with the aesthetic of American hip-hop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

The nineteenth-century realization that the living cell was no more than a bag of interconnected chemical reactions had launched a powerful discipline fusing biology and chemistry—biochemistry.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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