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
Robert Irwin’s ‘unlights’ make use of fluorescent tubes, colored gels, electrical tape — and not a spark of electricity at the gallery Kayne Griffin.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023
The Steam Deck has its own electrical tape already; the new bits would go just underneath the circle on the left.
From The Verge • Apr. 28, 2022
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
There was an oldfashioned drugstore there with a black marble counter and chrome stools with tattered plastic seats patched with electrical tape.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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