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It's usually found on shower doors, bathtubs, tiles, and faucets, and can be challenging to clean, especially if it’s been ignored.
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Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2024
Other details continue the embrace of color like the orange-and-white tiles in the kitchen, the wallpaper with a Roy Lichtenstein look in the children’s bathroom, and the lamps with warm gradients found in the principal bathroom.
—Marta Sader, Architectural Digest, 2 Nov. 2024
The story of its existence—never safe from the wrecker’s ball and once, in 1997, devastated by a fire so hot the tiles fell off—begins with railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt opening Grand Central Terminal in 1913, putting the Oyster Bar in its belly.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
The game takes place on a 6 x 6 grid, and the goal is to flip over tiles to find matches, much like in a classic game of memory.
—Andrew Webster, The Verge, 31 Oct. 2024
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Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2024
Other details continue the embrace of color like the orange-and-white tiles in the kitchen, the wallpaper with a Roy Lichtenstein look in the children’s bathroom, and the lamps with warm gradients found in the principal bathroom.
—Marta Sader, Architectural Digest, 2 Nov. 2024
The story of its existence—never safe from the wrecker’s ball and once, in 1997, devastated by a fire so hot the tiles fell off—begins with railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt opening Grand Central Terminal in 1913, putting the Oyster Bar in its belly.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
The game takes place on a 6 x 6 grid, and the goal is to flip over tiles to find matches, much like in a classic game of memory.
—Andrew Webster, The Verge, 31 Oct. 2024
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In a Dutch oven or soup pot, cook the ground beef and onion, breaking the beef into crumbles, until beef is no longer pink; drain.Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 6 Nov. 2024
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Due to worries about invasive species, the California Natural Resources Agency asks for people to clean, drain and dry boats and equipment every time they’re removed from water.Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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Pay 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
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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
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The agency has long described the dribbling hydrant as a safety hazard.John Bacon, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2024
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The first two fire engines reported difficulty securing a water source because some of the hydrants were not operating.Jamie L. LaReau, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2024
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Lunch is served at 11 a.m. Per the Federal Bureau of Prisons' national menu, Monday lunch mains can include Southwest chicken wraps, chicken tacos, cheese pizza or three-bean chili.Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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For mains, check out pollo alla lambrusco — an Italian riff on coq au vin.Anna Spiegel, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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In back, a pipe is leaking, damaged when the wall supporting a heater was torn out.Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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Now, a team of engineers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) in Australia have invented a protective coating for concrete pipes that could help reduce the number of fatbergs that form in sewers.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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Warehouses may not have smokestacks releasing pollutants that the EPA and local agencies typically regulate.Justine Calma, The Verge, 12 Sep. 2024
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In the days when the Harlem River was lined with smokestack industry, its bridges swung open and closed constantly, six or seven times a day, to let ships through.Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 12 July 2024
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Panoche employees modified the leaking standpipe so it could be opened and closed, according to the plea agreement documents, allowing for water to be drawn from the Delta-Mendota Canal on demand and undetected.Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
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But firefighters discovered that there was no standpipe on the interior of the building — a violation of the state fire code.Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024
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In the 1988 tear duct obliterator Beaches, Barbara Hershey’s Hillary sits in an Adirondack chair in the salty air.Eliza Berman, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
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Other changes such as the swapping of a cigarette ashtray for an air duct help improve comfort in the vehicle are standard.Aaron Turpen, New Atlas, 14 Sep. 2024
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“Tile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tile. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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