: a wide cloth adhesive tape originally designed for sealing joints in heating or air-conditioning ducts
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It was held together with duct tape.
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Terry Gross, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
Below, my expert guides, Kevin Jackson and Maxie Johnson, share these key items, ranging from the seemingly obvious, like a water purifier, to the wonderfully bizarre, like duct tape.
—Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2025
She was accused of using duct tape to bind the wrists of a student.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Social connections begin to dry up, party invitations get lost in the mail, and Bear soon finds himself with nobody to turn to when the new Nikki starts stabbing herself with broken glass, cooking his dead cat, and sealing his doors with duct tape to prevent him from leaving the house.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
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Terry Gross, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
Below, my expert guides, Kevin Jackson and Maxie Johnson, share these key items, ranging from the seemingly obvious, like a water purifier, to the wonderfully bizarre, like duct tape.
—Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2025
She was accused of using duct tape to bind the wrists of a student.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Social connections begin to dry up, party invitations get lost in the mail, and Bear soon finds himself with nobody to turn to when the new Nikki starts stabbing herself with broken glass, cooking his dead cat, and sealing his doors with duct tape to prevent him from leaving the house.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Duct tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duct%20tape. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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