electrical tape
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Sometimes, the group said, it would see vehicles with no plates, or plates blacked out with electrical tape, or temporary paper plates that just so happened to tear off in the wind.
From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025
The works he had been making since 1962 weren’t exactly photogenic, assembled from modest materials like translucent plastic scrim, solid planes of color or black electrical tape.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023
And she used electrical tape to cover the lights on the electronics, “otherwise it would have looked like a flashing Christmas egg.”
From New York Times • May 16, 2023
Tattered electrical tape held together the brass rail, and Jimmy had left behind his old equipment — suture scissors, adrenaline and Vaseline — in a briefcase.
From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2021
And behind that was a composite toolbox, the opening of the lid sealed with black electrical tape.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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