inlet
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It also employs variable inlet geometry that instantly and precisely meters boost, air charge and bypass, reducing throttle latency and increasing efficiency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
First, the pipes will be fed by new wide inlet heads, which slow the water so that fish are not sucked in.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
After a large-scale search, his body was found about 600m from the entrance to a culvert inlet behind Northwood Road in north Belfast.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
Scotland's First Minister John Swinney however expressed dismay that he had only heard about the tanker being in the Scottish inlet of Moray Firth via media reports.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
Near midnight on the night of September 30, 1962, four Soviet submarine commanders walked through thick fog along a wooden pier on Sayda Bay, an inlet of the Barents Sea.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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The whales feast all summer long, and only then embark on a 6,000-mile journey south to Mexico, where females calve and nurse their young in the warm and protected inlets along the Baja Peninsula.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2024
Suddenly, at the beach, there was life everywhere: fish frothing in the surf, fish flooding inlets.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2024
Officials urged residents to shut off their water heater inlets to conserve water.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
In order to do so, it has requested a temporary exemption from safety rules recently introduced to prevent anti-icing systems from causing potentially catastrophic damage to engine inlets.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024
The land grew marshier, inlets appeared, and soon we traveled over the bridge to the island.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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She was about to reach and, as Ab supposed, pass one of the inletting paths entering almost at right angles from the left.
From The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Stanley Waterloo