pinions

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They are large, high-value parts with dozens of components, including ring gears and pinions, specifically made for GM’s trucks—and thus not easily substituted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Those presidents by and large left the architectural pinions of the institution intact.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2019

“I began to feel an invincible distaste for the same; & a longing to plume my pinions for a flight,” he explained.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

Creating life from pinions and pivots and tiny screws may be the easy part.

From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2016

At once they beat their wings and surged forward, and she darted with them, surfing on the turbulence their pinions caused in the air and relishing the speed and power it added to her flight.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman