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
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
To help with her astigmatism, she’d fashioned together two pairs of glasses using black electrical tape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
I also brought two extra tubes, a pump, a multi-tool to tighten bolts, a patch kit, electrical tape and rubber bands.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 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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