: a wide cloth adhesive tape originally designed for sealing joints in heating or air-conditioning ducts
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Human operators accompanied each robot, providing guidance, changing batteries, and performing emergency repairs—often with duct tape.
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
Tylee had been dismembered and burned and J.J. was found wrapped in plastic and bound by duct tape.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
The state’s strongest piece of evidence against Pratt was his DNA found on a roll of duct tape that was used to restrain the victims.
—Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2025
His younger brother, who just turned 9, would later tell police the children were punished by being hit with a copper rod, punched with boxing gloves and tied by wrists and ankles to a ladder with duct tape while a 10-pound weight was dropped on their stomachs.
—Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2025
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
Tylee had been dismembered and burned and J.J. was found wrapped in plastic and bound by duct tape.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
The state’s strongest piece of evidence against Pratt was his DNA found on a roll of duct tape that was used to restrain the victims.
—Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2025
His younger brother, who just turned 9, would later tell police the children were punished by being hit with a copper rod, punched with boxing gloves and tied by wrists and ankles to a ladder with duct tape while a 10-pound weight was dropped on their stomachs.
—Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2025
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“Duct tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duct%20tape. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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