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flywheel

[flahy-hweel, -weel] / ˈflaɪˌʰwil, -ˌwil /
NOUN
balance wheel
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Mounting investments to drive its media push have squeezed margins, prompting shareholders to argue that a buyout could insulate Mattel from volatile quarterly earnings releases, or immediately connect its brands to an established distribution flywheel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“Taken together, our brand flywheel is working,” Niccol said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

The medium of animation itself is a structural reason why other film studios haven’t achieved Disney’s success: it is uniquely well-suited to form the core of such a flywheel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Nvidia’s capital allocation strategy, powered by its AI-driven cash flywheel, prioritizes funding its high-return growth initiatives, expanding its AI ecosystem, and returning significant excess cash to shareholders.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Then he swung a flywheel round and round, and with a bit of luck, after a lot of coughing and spluttering, the thing would finally get going.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

Images on social media purport to show one of the chairlift's flywheels off it's spoke.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2025

For the MK-3, Dart Zone’s using serrated flywheels that appear to be slightly shredding every dart I fire out the end.

From The Verge ● Sep. 29, 2021

Above all, Freed loved Amazon’s focus on spinning its flywheels faster, and finding new markets where they could whirl.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2019

Excess solar energy will be stored via flywheels housed in a communal building.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 14, 2017

It grew louder, angrier, and suggested the high-velocity spin of flywheels or electric turbines turning at impossible speed.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan


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