: a wide cloth adhesive tape originally designed for sealing joints in heating or air-conditioning ducts
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Chelsea Arnone, director of federal affairs for CHIME, a group that represents hospital IT experts, pointed to one of its members' recent experiences consulting for a critical access hospital that had its emergency room door fixed with duct tape after being shattered by a rock.
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Tina Reed, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
Watching Ashley give Luke the middle finger as she’s wheeled into an ambulance — miraculously having survived a stab to the neck thanks to a single piece of duct tape — isn’t satisfying enough after that insufferable groping scene.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 Dec. 2024
But what about those fibers from Patsy Ramsey's jacket that police say were in the paint tray and on the sticky side of duct tape covering JonBenét's mouth?
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2024
On the morning of Nov. 19, 2000, three hunters in the woods in Manorville, N.Y. came across a black plastic bag wrapped in duct tape.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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Tina Reed, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
Watching Ashley give Luke the middle finger as she’s wheeled into an ambulance — miraculously having survived a stab to the neck thanks to a single piece of duct tape — isn’t satisfying enough after that insufferable groping scene.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 Dec. 2024
But what about those fibers from Patsy Ramsey's jacket that police say were in the paint tray and on the sticky side of duct tape covering JonBenét's mouth?
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2024
On the morning of Nov. 19, 2000, three hunters in the woods in Manorville, N.Y. came across a black plastic bag wrapped in duct tape.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Duct tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duct%20tape. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.
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