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  • Tanned and plug-like, swarthy and shiny in his pinstriped suit and gold-and-red-striped tie, Mr. Zucker was Mr. NBC, or as Conan O'Brien had imagined him for the movie version of the merger of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, Mini-Me.

    The Apprentice's Sorcerer 2004

  • Thirteen U.S. reactors have so-called pressure-suppression containment structures, which are highly vulnerable to hydrogen explosions in the event of a full loss of power -- due to their dependence on electric-powered spark plug-like igniters to burn off hydrogen in a controlled manner.

    Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 2009

  • Tanned and plug-like, swarthy and shiny in his pinstriped suit and gold-and-red-striped tie, Mr. Zucker was Mr. NBC, or as Conan O’Brien had imagined him for the movie version of the merger of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, Mini-Me.

    The Apprentice's Sorcerer 2007

  • "The plug-like shape in the middle is a GPS (global positioning satellite) receiver which connects with satellites in the sky to pinpoint a vehicle's location.

    Slugger O'Toole 2009

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