: a wide cloth adhesive tape originally designed for sealing joints in heating or air-conditioning ducts
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Currently, Vise is working with the FBI to identify people who committed similar crimes, to compare their prints to the partial print found on the duct tape.
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Audrey Abrahams, NBC news, 1 Feb. 2026
Officers said a security guard found the victim, a man in his 50s, tied up with duct tape in his car after the robbery.
—Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
Each— a suitcase held together by duct tape.
—Ilya Kaminsky, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
Can make with cardboard and duct tape only.
—Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 9 Jan. 2026
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Audrey Abrahams, NBC news, 1 Feb. 2026
Officers said a security guard found the victim, a man in his 50s, tied up with duct tape in his car after the robbery.
—Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
Each— a suitcase held together by duct tape.
—Ilya Kaminsky, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
Can make with cardboard and duct tape only.
—Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 9 Jan. 2026
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“Duct tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duct%20tape. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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