axle
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A wheel can spin continuously around a fixed axle, allowing it to rotate without disturbing whatever it supports.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Although dwarf reedsnakes lack anything resembling a wheel's axle, they effectively divide their bodies into regions with different functions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Archaeologists later excavated a sword still in its scabbard, decorated straps, buckles, rings, ornaments and chariot wheel axle caps.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Somehow a pair of independently operating permanent-magnet motors, one on each axle, has been dubbed “symmetrical all-wheel drive.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
If you push, the other wheel grips, but it is geared so that the axle still turns in the same direction and the weight continues to rise.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The Bentley, he noted, has electrically actuated anti-roll linkages on both axles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The strike is ill-timed for General Motors, which aims to boost truck production amid competition; GM has about two weeks of axles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
The Opel Blitz was stuck fast in the deep gravel bed, almost up to its axles.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
The axles use open differentials and brake-based torque vectoring to articulate power left or right—an ability that could make the difference between getting to the ski resort or glumly waiting for a tow truck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
The sound of the axles fades; silence seals itself back over the forest.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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