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rigging

[rig-ing] / ˈrɪg ɪŋ /
NOUN
gear
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It has added rigging and fencing businesses and is pursuing work in live events and sports alongside film and TV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

"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

To create the sequence, Nolan’s team built a sort of silo on the beach, rigging it with minuscule LED lights to mimic sunlight leaking through chinks in the horse’s hull.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Meta, meanwhile, is still going strong but has experienced its own earthquakes: from privacy scandals and election rigging accusations to teen mental health crises and toxic online harms.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

The trip also proved that my rigging worked.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

The riggings and armaments were complete, but something was wrong.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan


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