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clogs

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Editorial note

It usually takes some time to get someone to an emergency room, so if their heart fully clogs, the outcome is often death.

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Quick take

a mostly instrumental project led by Bryce Dessner and Padma Newsome.

Meaning at a glance

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N

a mostly instrumental project led by Bryce Dessner and Padma Newsome.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for clogs.

N

a mostly instrumental project led by Bryce Dessner and Padma Newsome.

Example sentences

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It usually takes some time to get someone to an emergency room, so if their heart fully clogs, the outcome is often death.

2

In the hotter mines they wear only a pair of thin drawers, clogs and knee-pads; in the hottest mines of all, only the clogs and knee-pads.

3

People who claim windmills have no place in the Dutch landscape probably don't like tulips and clogs either.

4

Protip: Don't use overpriced hardware that everybody complains about (clogs up, cramped hands) as an example of superiority.

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Any plans for 'preventing catastrophe' or 'forbidden operations' like centrifuging asymmetrically, or mixing stuff that precipitates+clogs (vs.

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And yes, clever clogs could try to time things to when people may not be looking, etc.

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A hipster needs to be different and possibly incur some difficulty, like wearing clogs, so Android is more appropriate.

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And anything that isn't (paper towels, etc.) should really not go down the drain, as it's likely to form clogs.

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Its more like plumbing (except in this case, the builder is telling you that when the sink clogs, you need a new house because they don't make that faucet anymore).

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Relatively speaking those parents of mine are to pop their clogs one day (well, Burkenstock sandals, one day being many years hence).

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Life isn't for scraping by on a pittance until you pop your clogs.

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Getting someone to the emergency room usually takes at least 10 minutes, so if the artery clogs 100%, it often results in death.

Quote examples

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> The question is "Do we want a society primarily controlled by those who inherited money?" There's a Dutch expression, "Clogs to clogs in three generations." It means the first generation, who wears clogs (regular people's shoes), they work hard and make money, they know struggle, they're frugal.

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"After years of being told, and telling others, that saturated fat clogs your arteries and makes you fat, there is now mounting evidence that eating some saturated fats may actually help you lose weight and be good for the heart"

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(Which is good for Erlang, because it's actually quite slow at most conventional things.) It doesn't matter if I've got "sub-millisecond message processing" if I'm trying to run more messages through a box than it can handle, or if I've got an external response handler that sometimes clogs up.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use clogs in a sentence?

It usually takes some time to get someone to an emergency room, so if their heart fully clogs, the outcome is often death.

What does clogs mean?

a mostly instrumental project led by Bryce Dessner and Padma Newsome.

What part of speech is clogs?

clogs is commonly used as N.