nuts and bolts

Example Sentences

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But China has a broad supply chain of manufacturers that make the nuts and bolts of humanoids, including sensors, batteries and other components.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

It will take longer to thrash out the nuts and bolts that would need to underpin a complex agreement.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025

In turn, those qualities dictate the nuts and bolts of an actual intervention strategy.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2024

But at the nuts and bolts, it’s still humanity.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

She was going through all the nuts and bolts of how you did it, what went in where, the different variations, like this was still Geography.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro