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Recent Examples of waste pipePay attention to where the kitchen and bathrooms are, too—water supply and waste pipes for the second floor are often found in walls on the first floor, below sinks, tubs, or showers.—Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023 Cathcart is referring to the plumbing that the vanity's sink and faucet connect to—the water lines and waste pipe connect to the underside of the sink via the bendy P-trap pipe.—Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2023 In spite of the NEA’s earlier demands, Golden Lead was soon permitted to reinstall a waste pipe.—Holly Eva Ryan, Quartz Africa, 27 June 2019 An investigation revealed that the waste pipe had been mistakenly removed earlier in the renovation.—New York Times, 15 June 2018
The drain doesn’t drain more than maybe a centimeter an hour.
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Ivy Scott,
Kansas City Star,
11 Sep. 2025
Rising distributor 1-2 Special’s flagship release started its journey at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where Dillane won best actor out of Un Certain Regard for his portrayal of a London rough sleeper circling the drain of his own self-destruction.
Marketing must shift from campaign execution to commercial system design, from MQL handoffs to full-funnel revenue ownership and from static planning to adaptive iteration.
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Cameron Partridge,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Use a funnel to fill the feeder to avoid drips and spills on the exterior.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
2 Sep. 2025
As environmental regulations limit the toxic output from smokestacks and tail pipes, particulate matter that could be absorbing or blocking incoming sunlight is being eliminated, leading to gradually warmer oceans.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
On a macro scale, that effect has been well-documented by photographers, with aerial shots of waterways clogged with plastic, the scars on barren land from deforestation and countless smokestacks spewing pollution into the air.
Check that your washer’s drain hose is securely connected and that the standpipe (a vertical pipe in the wall—usually PVC—that your machine’s hose drains into) is the correct height (usually 18–30 inches).
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Lauren Bengtson,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Aug. 2025
The 85-unit building was built in 1968 and was not required to have sprinklers or standpipes, Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipski said.
Outside a laundromat on West Burnside Avenue, an open fire hydrant made a Las Vegas-worthy fountain that cooled passersby.
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Robert Sullivan,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Those hydrants were at Lehigh Avenue at Churchill Street, Lehigh Avenue at Dempster Street, the north side of Dempster Street halfway between Lehigh Avenue and Birch Avenue, and Dempster Street at Birch Avenue, the Facebook post states.
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