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as in pipe
a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas)
watched the liquid move through the tube between the flasks and recorded the movement in his chemistry notebook
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as in TV
an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound
we plan to relax and spend some time in front of the tube tonight
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Recent Examples of tube
These fungal tubes are made of rigid cells that contain chitin, the same compound found in insect exoskeletons.
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Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
About one in 40 children may require hospitalization, where treatments may include intravenous fluids, tube feeding and blood work to track electrolyte levels.
—Don Sweeney
april 6, Sacbee.com, 6 Apr. 2026
My guess is that SDG&E didn’t want to deal with a lengthy recertification process of a new tube design.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
In December, Laura sought additional treatment at Children’s Medical Center Dallas, continuing to falsify information about her son’s condition while requesting surgery to insert a gastrojejunostomy tube, authorities allege.
—Maya Rosenberg, NBC news, 5 Apr. 2026
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Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
About one in 40 children may require hospitalization, where treatments may include intravenous fluids, tube feeding and blood work to track electrolyte levels.
—Don Sweeney
april 6, Sacbee.com, 6 Apr. 2026
My guess is that SDG&E didn’t want to deal with a lengthy recertification process of a new tube design.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
In December, Laura sought additional treatment at Children’s Medical Center Dallas, continuing to falsify information about her son’s condition while requesting surgery to insert a gastrojejunostomy tube, authorities allege.
—Maya Rosenberg, NBC news, 5 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tube
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Then, in January, a pipe burst during the extreme cold, which caused water to rain down inside the church as repairs were underway.—
Ryan Hughes,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Welsh had been researching chloride transport long before the gene was discovered, and some of those early results suggested the problem may have been in a channel, which is like a little pipe through a cell membrane.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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Magnolia Mayor Matthew Dantzer was arrested on charges of felony assault, KPRC-TV, ABC 13, and KBTX reported Tuesday, April 14, citing the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and Texas Rangers.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
15 Apr. 2026
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Since its inception in 1981, Wednesday's Child has been a collaboration of the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE), the Department of Children & Families and WBZ-TV/CBS Boston.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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It's been an eventful first month on the job for Pat Lyons, the new athletic director at the University of Rhode Island, who takes the reins in Kingston during a volatile time in college sports, with the billions of dollars available in media rights turning the NCAA into a conduit for big business.—
Kathleen Hill,
The Providence Journal,
11 Apr. 2026
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But on either side, the different forces create strains that could potentially open up conduits for mantle material to make its way toward the surface.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 Apr. 2026
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Large screens broadcast major domestic and international television channels.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Social media users, television watchers, highway drivers — most Americans, really, have been exposed at one point or another to a betting ad.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
10 Apr. 2026
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Large screens broadcast major domestic and international television channels.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Since then, the group’s claims and posts have been circulated in Telegram and X channels affiliated with pro-Iranian militias and pro-Iranian news outlets.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2026
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The toilet has been on-and-off limits to the crew ever since last week’s launch, prompting them to rely on a backup bag-and-funnel system for urinating.—
Marcia Dunn,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
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Squeezing through ‘pinch points’ Our model showed that the squirrel’s best habitat persists in a network of pinch points, bottlenecks where development and infrastructure funnel movement into a limited set of pathways.—
Eve Bohnett,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Tube.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tube. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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