: a wide cloth adhesive tape originally designed for sealing joints in heating or air-conditioning ducts
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About a week later, a passerby found Buckner’s mangled torso stuffed inside a black plastic garbage bag that was bound with duct tape near the Bay Farm Island Bridge in Alameda.
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Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
After an investigation began, investigators also acquired surveillance footage that showed David purchasing the spray paint and duct tape.
—Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
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Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
After an investigation began, investigators also acquired surveillance footage that showed David purchasing the spray paint and duct tape.
—Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for duct tape
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“Duct tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duct%20tape. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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