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fireplugs

noun

plural of fireplug

as in hydrants

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Noun

Some hydrants were jammed up by freezing temperatures; the blaze was contained in part because of a fireboat that Collins had funded.

— Emma Green, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026
The loss of pressure in hydrants has happened before in wildfires, including the 2008 Freeway Complex fire, the 2017 Tubbs and Thomas fires, the 2018 Woolsey fire and the 2024 Mountain fire.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of hydrants

Noun

The stump itself won’t damage buried water lines, per se, but the roots can be ruthless with pipes.

— Steven John, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2026
Researchers with Harvard University and the University of California Berkeley who looked at the early 20th century found that cities using lead pipes had murder rates roughly 25% higher than those using iron water-service lines.

— Richard Day, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of pipes

Noun

Make sure to protect tender young trees and shrubs with tree tubes or wire cages.

— Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 28 Oct. 2026
He was attached to a heart-lung machine, a life-support device that pumps a patient’s blood outside the body, via tubes placed into his sternum.

— Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of tubes

Noun

However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that both surgeries could affect the nerves and ducts, therefore impacting milk production.

— Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2026
Back in New York the doctors confirmed the cancer had spread through all the milk ducts in my left breast and a double mastectomy was my only option.

— Samantha Ciaccia, Glamour, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of ducts

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Nord Stream 1 and 2 are two major conduits created to funnel Russian gas to Europe, via Germany.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
Hailed as a bold experiment seven years ago, the Sanfic-Morbido Lab, part of Sanfic’s industry section Sanfic Industria, has evolved into one of the region’s most consistent conduits for fantastic/genre filmmaking.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026

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