conveyor
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The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a vast system of ocean currents that acts like a planetary conveyor belt.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
At the checkout, another older man asked about the wine I was carefully laying down sideways on the fast-moving conveyor belt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Large cracks were on walls, and the airport’s check-in areas and its baggage conveyor belt were covered with bricks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
“Until you have stronger economic growth and are less constrained by debt, it’s highly likely the conveyor belt of PMs will continue.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Anyway, the conveyor is moving along at roughly the speed of a moving sidewalk.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
Murphy Road Recycling’s material recovery facility in Berlin, Conn., uses a largely unmanned system of conveyors, magnets, optical sorters and pneumatic blocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Phil became what few others in the arts or entertainment remain — conveyors of authentically good news.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025
Once the pages are printed, they are trucked to a nearby bindery and fed into a whirring machine of conveyors, choppers and hot glue.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2024
Melissa: The separation of all those products — plastics, paper, cardboard — onto their own conveyors is a master class in harnessing the laws of physics.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
Shifts might come and go, one lupus-coloured face give place to another; majestically and for ever the conveyors crept forward with their load of future men and women.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
