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But I didn’t know that when our rig sounded three long horn blasts as pieces of the roof came down—a signal to evacuate and move to defensive firefighting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Cruise’s Digger Rockwell rises from bed and tries to feed his bizarrely acting cat before learning of an explosion on his oil rig in Greenland.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Analyst Tim Elder views Amplitude’s plan to drill the Nestor prospect as a sound decision because it makes best use of the available Transocean Equinox rig.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

With production at Platform Gilda dwindling to 1,100 barrels per day, staff said the rig would also run its course if it weren’t for fracking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

I thought briefly of sleeping again until daylight but the dogs were slamming into the harnesses, screaming to run, so I shrugged and jumped on the rig and untied it.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

This stretch of Texas, flat, straight and filled with trucks, is the perfect testing spot for dozens of driverless big rigs, some without a human driver and others with one riding along just in case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Isaias has disrupted oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, as platforms and rigs were evacuated.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

California already offers generous grants to truckers to offset some of the higher costs of zero-emission vehicles that can run three times more than diesel rigs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Oil companies operating in the Gulf are used to temporarily cutting production and evacuating personnel from their rigs given the frequency of storms in the region.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

It seemed like a steal at $2.5 million, but with the glut of rigs on the domestic market there weren’t any takers.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

So he did the unthinkable: He sent a tractor rigged with a water tank and hoses into the vineyard to hydrate his most vulnerable vines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

In another lawsuit, he claimed an arcade rigged its claw machines against players, alleging it functioned as “a casino for children.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

And an 'altitude room' being rigged up in his bedroom.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

The president’s son was accused by his own former business partner of asking a UFC commentator whether Sunday’s fights were rigged and whether he should place a bet on the opening bout.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

The fairy filters rigged over his eyes revealed that there were no warm bodies approaching.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

It comes after the same UK court overturned five convictions of ex-Barclays bankers in the rate rigging trials earlier this week.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Authorities said it was the most voted name in an online poll done in May, but some online media users accused authorities of rigging the vote.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Except for when passengers, after taking turns at rigging, filed below deck to explore the ship’s white-oak skeleton, which flexed and creaked in the current—the ancient sounds of a seafaring world that’s all but lost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

The ship lacks the usual clanging metal rigging of a modern sailboat, so the two-hour, $80 journey was nearly silent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

We stand gratefully beneath the rigging and line the rails.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson