gear
Example Sentences
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“Much of the expansion over the last decade has been geared towards global growth,” the head of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association said this fall.
But looking a little deeper, bulls appear to be taking a breather as they gear up for a big push higher next year.
From MarketWatch
Her gear was "soaking" and her cameras would stop working "any minute".
From BBC
It is painstaking, dismantling delicate gear assemblies, then searching hundreds of century-old envelopes for the tiny parts that will bring them back to life.
As the whole of Australia gears up for the Boxing Day Test, Head and his family were pictured in a Christmas scene, external on the front of the Herald Sun newspaper.
From BBC
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