electrical tape
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So the fan made one himself before Game 4, using white electrical tape on the back of a Dodger blue jersey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
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
Smoke alarms, TVs, clocks, curtains, under the door -- I literally need to travel with black electrical tape and a mask.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
So they opened up their Steam Deck and stacked four little strips of electrical tape atop that same place inside the shell — right behind the fan.
From The Verge ● Apr. 28, 2022
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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