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steeks

verb

present tense third-person singular of steek, chiefly Scottish

as in shuts

to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening Macleod threatened to steek the door in my face if I ever said a word against the Scots again

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There’s a brief pause, and then my phone goes haywire, inundated with Bluetooth signal spam — new Airpods connections, contact requests, an avalanche of popups that make my phone basically unusable until Hedge shuts it off.

— Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026
Both failures are expensive in flood response, since a miss floods a warehouse and a false alarm shuts one down for no reason.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

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Mexican restaurant closes abruptly Despite the comments on a recent Facebook post praising its glory, a KC-area Mexican restaurant has closed.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2026
Even so, running current software closes other security gaps that attackers could try to exploit.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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