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Once the organoids had plugged into the brains of the rats, the animals could receive sensory signals from their whiskers and help generate command signals to guide their movements.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022

No-one was staring at their phone screen and not a single person had plugged their headphones in.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2022

“Hang on tight,” Straka wrote on the site, where he had plugged a forthcoming “grand relaunch” of his campaign.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2022

March 29: The container ship that had plugged the Suez Canal is dragged off the channel’s banks and refloated, allowing ships to once again traverse the 120-mile waterway.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2021

Zalmay had plugged them in and positioned them behind Fadi’s back, on the right.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai