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catachreses

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devices

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Grab bars — rails attached to walls, particularly in bathrooms — help provide balance and prevent falls, preventing serious injuries, said Jim Christian, founder of the effort to push Medicare to cover the devices, Safety Bars for America.

— Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
Both the Russian and Chinese governments have been compromising routers for years, sometimes in prolonged tugs-of-war to wrest control of devices the other has already commandeered.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026

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