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
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
After pulling a length of the cable out and stripping the ends, she fiddled with a roll of electrical tape until Vogel arrived.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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