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Light blue Velcro is everywhere: adhesive-backed squares decorate the walls and the seat backs, holding Velcro-adorned pencils, notebooks, flight manuals, clips.
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Stick-on earrings use adhesive-backed materials as a means of attachment.
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This is one of those moments when the runner measures the width of every bit of dead space and heads out to buy a set of stacking drawers, or, failing that, a handful of adhesive-backed hooks.
Karen Stabiner: The College Insider: Admissions Freak-Out Countdown #17: You Say Good-Bye, and I Say Hello Karen Stabiner 2010
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This is one of those moments when the runner measures the width of every bit of dead space and heads out to buy a set of stacking drawers, or, failing that, a handful of adhesive-backed hooks.
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When I flipped through the book, an adhesive-backed label bearing an autograph written in a spidery hand fluttered to the floor.
Beware Rare Book Forgeries Tom Post 2009
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Sofa-bricks are washable, adhesive-backed soft "bricks" you can use to turn walls and floors into semi-permanent lounging areas (for example, you can stack them around the head of your bed to give you something to sit up against when you're working).
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SOONIAN: You can use adhesive-backed foam insulation, it comes in different widths.
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The $89.95 AcoustiPack from quietpc. com provides adhesive-backed, soundproof foam you can easily attach to the inside walls of the case.
Silence Is Golden 2007
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Flat, adhesive-backed speaker wire you can paint over
Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives 2005
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Taperwire is a flat adhesive-backed speaker-wire that you stick to your walls and paint over:
Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives 2005
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