: a wide cloth adhesive tape originally designed for sealing joints in heating or air-conditioning ducts
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Agatha duct tapes his wrists and mouth and throws him in the closet.
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Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
That’s the version Bradford observes, with duct tape holding the rug together and mystery ooze seeping from cracks in the walls.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
Hinch and Fetter are basically getting the team to win with a pitching staff held together by duct tape.
—Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 28 Aug. 2024
It was wrapped up in two ratchet straps and multiple layers of duct tape, several layers of saran wrap, bed sheets, two blankets and a tarp in the freezer, the outlets reported police as stating.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
That’s the version Bradford observes, with duct tape holding the rug together and mystery ooze seeping from cracks in the walls.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
Hinch and Fetter are basically getting the team to win with a pitching staff held together by duct tape.
—Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 28 Aug. 2024
It was wrapped up in two ratchet straps and multiple layers of duct tape, several layers of saran wrap, bed sheets, two blankets and a tarp in the freezer, the outlets reported police as stating.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Duct tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duct%20tape. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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