rigging
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"It's rigging the game to win rather than playing by the rules," said Koneschusky, the former Senate aide.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
With its tar-soaked rigging, creaking oak deck and 50 spruce oars, Draken Harald Harfagre is the largest modern replica of a Viking ship.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 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
Other high-profile figures who had previously been indicted on separate cases of stock rigging include Samsung chairman Lee Jae-yong, Kakao founder Kim Beom-su, and former first lady Kim Keon-hee.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
But they were all so eager to try it that soon its rigging was broken and its pennant dragging.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
Instead, firefighters responded to the scene with ropes and riggings and rappelled down to the man’s location.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
After boarding their ships, the players unfurled sails, turned rudders, and climbed riggings to move between a series of tropical islands, climbing ashore to explore the new locations.
From The Verge ● Jun. 13, 2016
Back home, he fed his semi-abstracting campaign with motifs from summer sojourns in Gloucester, Massachusetts: signs, boat riggings, gas pumps.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 13, 2016
Robert Brill’s clean, sturdy sets included towering masts, spidery riggings and, in one scene, a brilliantly realized whale-rendering works.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2010
Thyon’s boyhood bed was shaped like a war brig, complete with real sails and riggings, and even miniature cannons, so heavy it took the strength of two maids to rock him to sleep.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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