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as in glue
a substance used to stick things together
what kind of cement works best on glass and pottery?
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as in bond
a uniting or binding force or influence
she is the cement that holds that often quarrelsome group together
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as in to weld
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Recent Examples of cement
Woai Staff, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024
Horses are meant to be on all fours, not stuck on their rear ends in a cement culvert.
—Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 28 Nov. 2024
Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
The residents' commitment to the MACC Fund was cemented the following year when a neighborhood child was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
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Noun
On Wednesday afternoon in Rio Grande City, Texas, cement trucks, construction workers and semi-trucks loaded with pieces of border wall could be seen entering a plot of land on FM 1430.
—Woai Staff, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024
Horses are meant to be on all fours, not stuck on their rear ends in a cement culvert.
—Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 28 Nov. 2024
Verb
Israel, Iran race to cement relations with Syrian rebels
The sudden fall this weekend of the Assad regime, long backed by Iran and allied with its proxy forces in the region, represented a welcome development for Netanyahu.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
The residents' commitment to the MACC Fund was cemented the following year when a neighborhood child was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
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The bones of knackered cattle in the glue that held his antique books together.Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
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Hot glue a mix of fresh, seasonal fruit—such as apples, oranges, or pomegranates—onto the wreath.Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Dec. 2024
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After staying in a hospital, he was booked into the Fort Bend County Jail with a bond set at $2.25 million.Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2024
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Dali was released on a recognizance bond Dec. 6 with mandatory GPS monitoring and a curfew.John Annese, New York Daily News, 17 Dec. 2024
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Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, MacDonald boarded a bus and headed to Georgia, where she was taught to weld and put to work after just a few days.Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 20 Nov. 2024
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The studio focuses squarely on metal, whether brutalist objects or welded, sculptural furniture, but it’s best known for expertise in hollow joinery and repoussé, the painstaking technique in which bas-relief-style images are pounded into a sheet of bronze.Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2024
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The adhesives used in this type of furniture can contain formaldehyde, which goes through a process called off-gassing, where the chemical is released into the air over time.Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2024
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Scientists already knew that Neanderthals made adhesives using other materials like ocher and naturally sticky substances to haft stone tips onto wooden shafts to create weapons.Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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The claim: Video shows drone crash in New Jersey A Dec. 16 Facebook reel (direct link, archive link) includes a video of emergency vehicles surrounding what appears to be an aircraft resting on a guardrail on the side of a highway.Katie Smith, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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Security messages from you should precede your high-volume seasons or events and give customers instructions on how to examine the links behind QR codes to verify your official domains.Forrester, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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It is often combined with erythritol (a sugar alcohol sweetener) to add bulk and reduce the intense sweetness.56 Monk fruit sweetener (monk fruit extract and erythritol) can be used to sweeten desserts like cakes, cookies, and brownies.Lauren O'Connor, MS, Health, 18 Dec. 2024
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Early pantomime theater generally combined two parts: first, a play; and second, a buffoonish slapstick drama featuring four stock characters borrowed from commedia dell’arte: Harlequin; his lady love, Columbine; a grumpy antagonist named Pantaloon; and his assistant, the Clown.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 Dec. 2024
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Think a $32 42-inch TCL smart TV or $5 Philips Sonic rechargeable electric toothbrushes, 12-piece Wahl dog clipper kits or Black & Decker corded blowers.Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Nov. 2024
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Just keep in mind that it’s corded, which has some pros and cons.Sandi Schwartz, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2024
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As humans, we are biologically wired to respond to stress with a fight-flight-freeze response.Chris Dyer, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Brown had wired nearly $60,000, just about the entirety of his savings, to the wrong place.Samantha Delouya, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Cement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cement. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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