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3 total sentences available.
Tubelights can be very troublesome at times. They flicker on and on but refuse to glow. One may find to his surprise that while this is the case with his tubelight, his neighbour's tubelight in another apartment of the same block is functioning quite well. The problem is more prevalent in the evenings and is easily traceable to voltage fluctuations.
Source: wiktionary
"Sunscreens protect you from UVA/UVB rays which can be emitted from many sources of light such as the sun, your tubelight and devices," Dr [Kaleem] Khan said, adding that using sunscreen once a day is the bare minimum you can do for your skin.
Source: wiktionary
And Modiji [Narendra Modi], also being Snarkyji, described Rahulji [Rahul Gandhi] as a tubelight because Rahulji had interjected only a good 40 minutes after Modiji had launched into his Parliamentary speech. […] CFL bulbs and LED lamps have now taken the place of tubelights, and younger citizens may not be aware of what makes a tubelight a tubelight. It's the flickering, slow response, stupid!
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include fool.
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