truss
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It is to his credit that the cathedral is not a simulacrum or facsimile, but a Gothic building, in all its structural reality, even the invisible oak roof truss above the vaults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Or The French Laundry’s Thomas Keller, who gently speaks to Carmy about the profound spirituality of their profession and the legacy he’s continuing, all while teaching him how to truss a chicken.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2024
The cargo hit an overhead brace, which in turn yanked one of the major truss beams inward, next to the southbound lanes, among other impacts.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
It hangs upstairs at the Broad museum, displayed along with Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy and a nifty diagram for a ruptured hernia truss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2023
What I saw through the downpour was the metal truss frame on a bridge.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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On the second floor, a generous dining space and an open kitchen with marble surfaces, warm-wood cabinetry, and one of the building’s original steel trusses await.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Instead of overwriting the building’s industrial character, he retained exposed trusses, concrete floors and vast, column-free volumes, ideal for contemporary art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
Repairs to 40,000 square feet of the roof and the replacement of metal roof trusses are under way, Fisher said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
The roof is long gone and huge timber roof trusses that once supported it have been stacked up in the street outside.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
The roof was made up of a series of triangular frames or trusses.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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It’s a childish performance that is trussed up as an important meditation on the Declaration.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
"He's not used to being all trussed up like that, you see."
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2023
Don't cut your carrot on the board you just trussed the chicken on either.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2023
Two, trussed onto hooks, hung in each pot sent down to the sea bottom, where their carcasses would be picked to the bone by snow crab.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
When their breakfast was over, and their packs all trussed up again, it was after ten o’clock, and the day was beginning to turn fine and hot.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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PSSL: Many of PSSL’s Black Friday deals are for pro lighting and trussing, but one product in particular is worth noting: it’s offering the MXL Revelation Solo Tube Condenser Microphone for only $299.99.
From The Verge ● Nov. 22, 2017
In fact, Mr. Waxman said, a great turkey needn’t involve an all-day roasting marathon, or a battery of treatments such as brining, trussing and lacquering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2015
If you've ever roasted a whole chicken for dinner, or tackled the big task of roasting the turkey for Thanksgiving, you probably know the importance of tying up the bird, or "trussing."
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2014
Together weighing over 12 tons and measuring 90 and 100 feet long, they required over 30 hoists and 140 feet of trussing to raise them so that they appear to be soaring through the cathedral.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2014
I had a sudden urge to walk out over the trussing and lean over the water, to declare myself to the world.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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