: a wide cloth adhesive tape originally designed for sealing joints in heating or air-conditioning ducts
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The woman got free from the duct tape and called for help, according to police, adding the woman wasn’t seriously hurt.
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Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2025
My younger boy was bound with his hands behind him and duct tape over his mouth.
—Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2025
Security footage shows the suspect returning to the home approximately one hour later, carrying a concrete rock and covering one of the truck’s cameras with duct tape.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Cops said the crooks used duct tape to bind the nanny and the 36-year-old homeowner, who lives in the home with her three children and husband, who was out of town.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2025
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Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2025
My younger boy was bound with his hands behind him and duct tape over his mouth.
—Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2025
Security footage shows the suspect returning to the home approximately one hour later, carrying a concrete rock and covering one of the truck’s cameras with duct tape.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Cops said the crooks used duct tape to bind the nanny and the 36-year-old homeowner, who lives in the home with her three children and husband, who was out of town.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Duct tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duct%20tape. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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