attachments

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The turn-of-the-century molds in his studio — which use botanic motifs, blossoming forms with metallic winged and floral attachments — look like desk toppers fit for an early 1900s eccentric obsessed with Darwinism and industrialization.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Over time, as people are uprooted from their agricultural communities as industrialisation tears apart people's familiar attachments, individuals become "alienated", he says.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

Transportation Department officials have had to take snowplow attachments off some of their trucks and add crash cushions to block roads for crowd control during protests.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

By demonstrating that CENP-E regulates the earliest attachments and by connecting this regulation to Aurora kinase activity, the Zagreb team linked two processes previously thought to act separately.

From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025

It weighs only ten pounds, he claims, although, as I soon find out, with the attachments dangling from the strap around your waist, the total is probably more like fourteen.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich