machinery
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The refiners still in operation are racing to supply a market in dire need of diesel, which powers all manner of heavy-duty vehicles and machinery, while also scrambling to procure enough crude shipments to process.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
The department said the worker fell into a bamboo thicket, along with some heavy machinery.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
This system allows it to contract far more quickly than human muscle, and researchers say the discovery could eventually help guide the development of faster artificial muscles and synthetic cellular machinery.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
That difference has made Spirostomum especially interesting to researchers who want to understand the machinery that makes its extreme speed possible.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Plots too were like rusted machinery whose wheels would no longer turn.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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For pathogens that escape this process, it is commonly thought that those pathogens must release a "secret arsenal" to "paralyze" the degradative machineries in the cell.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
"Despite the seasonal factor of summer vacations, the trade balance remained in surplus on robust exports of major products, such as automobiles and machineries, and an improvement in semiconductor exports," Trade Minister Lee Chang-yang said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 1, 2023
Export growth of machineries and hi-tech products were strong.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2021
Something is broken in our system if the machineries of war endure all strategies and policy changes, if only for the sake of enduring.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2018
It is all clangings and bangings as tiles are spat out by big machineries onto what is called a conveyor belt.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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Vocabulary lists containing machinery
Engineering - Introductory
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Mechanical Engineering
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Engineering - Middle School
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