girder

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Scanning the rubble, Ali caught sight of a pink, soot-covered pair of girls’ tracksuit bottoms, hanging from a steel girder jutting out of the heap.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2024

In future months, another disruption may happen during permanent girder and ceiling repairs, Pihlstrom said.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2023

The rise of white collar work in downtown L.A. — and the invention of elevators and steel girder construction — also contributed to skyline development at the turn of the century, Deverell said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2022

They can also penetrate materials that x-rays cannot, enabling researchers to image the interiors of big objects such as a running engine or a steel girder.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 2, 2021

Frightful did not see the cherry picker until Flip’s head and arm came up over the horizontal girder.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George