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Recent Examples of superglue
This new research, however, could apply some superglue to our broken theories by suggesting a new identity for little red dots and an entirely new class of cosmic object.
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Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Anna-av/Getty Images The structure of the gecko's toes have inspired many a previous product—from special superglues through to 'spiderman'-style climbing suits—but such have long proven difficult to emulate in medical and personal care products.
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Health Reporter,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
The arrow shafts were also coated with birch bark pitch–considered a Stone Age superglue.
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Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
5 Dec. 2024
Hopefully your first-aid kit has tweezers, because some of the alternatives—like superglue on a cotton swab—have the potential to go seriously wrong.
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Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
15 Dec. 2022
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Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Anna-av/Getty Images The structure of the gecko's toes have inspired many a previous product—from special superglues through to 'spiderman'-style climbing suits—but such have long proven difficult to emulate in medical and personal care products.
—
Health Reporter,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
The arrow shafts were also coated with birch bark pitch–considered a Stone Age superglue.
—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
5 Dec. 2024
Hopefully your first-aid kit has tweezers, because some of the alternatives—like superglue on a cotton swab—have the potential to go seriously wrong.
—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
15 Dec. 2022
See All Example Sentences for superglue
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superglue
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The ultrasonic transmitters emitted these sound waves through the rods, which interact acoustically via the epoxy.
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Reinforcing materials are then deposited, including thermoplastic carbon-fiber acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) for lightweight strength or thermoset resins like epoxy for greater stiffness and durability.
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Sock Puppets Kids of all ages can enjoy making their own sock puppet creation using old socks and a few simply crafting accessories like googly eyes, pipe cleaners, and glue.
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Their two daughters, 13-year-old Elliott and 9-year-old Lyric, are still the glue holding the estranged parents together.
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The cooking process will also cause the okra to release its mucilage.
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Soaking chia seeds results in a gel-like coating, called mucilage, that surrounds the seeds.
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The stadium is in the midst of a five-year, $60 million improvement plan that already has resulted in a new roof over the event space and suites, upgraded locker rooms for UConn and visiting teams and spruced up restrooms along the concourse that include epoxy resin coatings on the floors.
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As with the Apollo spacecraft, Orion’s heat shield is made principally of a material known as Avcoat, a combination of epoxy resin and silica fibers, designed to absorb the fires of reentry and slowly burn off, or ablate, carrying the reentry heat away from the capsule and crew.
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The report found that excessive moisture had caused the adhesive to fail, leaving the roofing membrane no longer properly adhered, according to the lawsuit.
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No adhesive, no leather, no apple pie!
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No one refilling a water glass or delivering plates.
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These marks are common and hard to avoid—McAllister says they can be caused by anything from a water glass without a coaster to a warm pizza box that’s just been delivered.
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Even for grant renewals — like the renewal Gould’s Great Lakes ADA Center needs to stay open — the grant language is similar from year to year but rarely a copy-and-paste situation.
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Copy, paste and edit the square brackets in ChatGPT, and keep the same chat window open so the context carries through.
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“Superglue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superglue. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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