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conveyor

[kuhn-vay-er] / kənˈveɪ ər /
NOUN
assembly line
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NOUN
elevator
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To some, marketing engineer is merely the latest on that conveyor belt of titles: a regular marketer dressed up in the AI fashion of the day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

She described its clinic in Düsseldorf as "like a conveyor belt, just one in, one out constantly".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Take the labor market — traditionally a chief conveyor of high inflation.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

I, too, couldn’t shake the thought of a meat factory and almost instantly, realized I wanted off the conveyor belt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Percy started across the room, picking his way around conveyor belts and moving platforms.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Otherwise, the system of conveyors, magnets, optical sorters and pneumatic blocks runs largely unmanned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 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

“The biggest challenges were getting it all up and running, literally within a few days to build the conveyors, establish the technological chains, the processes,” Shtipelman said.

From Reuters ● May 16, 2022

Or, as one packinghouse manager explained, “If you need to turn out a little more, you speed up the conveyors a little and the men speed up to keep pace.”

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield




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