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flywheel

[flahy-hweel, -weel] / ˈflaɪˌʰwil, -ˌwil /
NOUN
balance wheel
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By funneling its characters into every monetizable outlet imaginable—merchandise, books and comics, soundtracks, park attractions, Broadway and ice shows, corporate partnerships—Disney amortized costs across the many flywheel revenue opportunities spanning decades.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

The crown jewel, and the key to making the entire flywheel business model work, is Disney’s animation division.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

Whilst these devices are designed for longer term space missions, the recent Artemis II mission around the moon took a specially developed exercise device called the flywheel.

From BBC May 22, 2026

That creates a flywheel of consistent high-margin revenue that supports the dividend and the predictability of the cash flows.

From Barron's May 7, 2026

Marine engines have more horsepower, so it takes more strength to turn the flywheel.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

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

From BBC Jan. 18, 2025

So when you start connecting the dots, there are really positive elements to those flywheels that are kind of unseen, but I can give you dozens of examples of those throughout Amazon.

From The Verge Oct. 12, 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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