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
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
I used electrical tape to attach cardboard fins to the casement and then borrowed Mom’s fingernail polish to paint a name on the side.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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