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Examples
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I rarely have macaroni on hand, so I tend to use cavatappi as a substitute and think that any tube-like pasta works well.
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"I was born again at 33 years," Mr. Zamora wrote in one of the scores of letters and poems he has sent through the pneumatic tube-like devices the miners use to communicate.
Writing Home, 'New' Miners Emerge Matt Moffett 2010
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His father taught him how to make dough, like the rice flour and sugar mixture for yubeshi, a gelatinous tube-like dessert that was a house specialty.
Making Home Sweet Again: After Tsunami, a Baker Finds Purpose Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011
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It was full and I had no seat booked, so I spent the journey standing in the corridor in a tube-like crush with what seemed like an entire brigade of the Italian army.
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The Aztec name is believed to derive from "plant with tube-like stems" and the Aztecs are said to have used them to carry water.
Did You Know? Mexico's national flower is the humble dahlia 2008
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~ Click on the tube-like middle section of the silver structure to the right of the frame.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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The Aztec name is believed to derive from "plant with tube-like stems" and the Aztecs are said to have used them to carry water.
Did You Know? Mexico's national flower is the humble dahlia 2008
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Do you have any further thoughts or conclusions about the tube-like reed found in Pasebakhaemipet's esophagus?
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Yeah I certainly want a cake with a picture of a girl on the toilet and a white tube-like structure sitting on top of it--did she graduate or is that "time of the month"?
Breaking News: Head-Swelling Bakery Incident Goes Horribly Awry Jen 2009
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Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Meijo University Donna Coveney Daniel Kleppner Dr. Iijima is known for his early work on carbon nanotubes, which are tiny, extremely hard and strong, tube-like material.
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