rod
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They come in all shapes and sizes; some resemble a hockey-puck-like disc, while others look more like a rod.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
That begs the question: How much responsibility does a filmmaker have to take a clear stance in their work, especially in a film that is overtly intended to be a lightning rod for heated debate?
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Fifteen months later, her death, and what many view as a suspicious silence surrounding it, has become a lightning rod for discontent among Vietnam's youth.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
And yet Clark, too, has become a lightning rod, a role she’s never courted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
I was not at all sure Mike's rods would come from Scotland in time, so we hunted a tackle store and finally bought a rod for Bill up-stairs over a drygoods store.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
A pyramid of gold-colored rods was situated over the bed.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
This all unfolds next to four or so men casting their fishing rods into the increasingly choppy waters.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Videos and photos circulating on social media show piles of rocks, chunks of concrete and rusted metal rods after waves removed layers of sand along the shoreline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The team broke through concrete and mangled reinforcing rods to reach him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Four hundred and eighty rods of maybe the finest fence in Montana!
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
"And then she will return with him to India, I take it" She rodded.
From A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever
One Forquer, who was Lincoln's opponent, had recently rodded his house—and every one knew it.
From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham
The lines were rodded in both directions from alternate manholes, thus avoiding uncoupling the rods and allowing every pull to be effective in pushing the mandrel through the ducts.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 by F. Lavis
About 10% of the conduit lines were rodded twice, owing to partial sections having been rodded once before completion.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 by F. Lavis
The best continuous work on rodding was done between October 22d and 29th, 1908, when in 7 working days, 105,600 duct ft. were rodded, an average of a little more than 15,000 ft. per day.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 by F. Lavis
The fruitful association has made Stielow a household name in hot rodding.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
In his spare time, Mr. Stielow’s fantastical, knee-weakening Camaro restorations — with names like “Tri-Tip” and “the Mule” — inspired an entire rodding movement called Pro Touring.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
I love that culture of hot rodding and classic cars.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2021
Thaemert believes rat rodding is more popular now.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2014
At the door, of the sheepfold the shepherd stands and 'the rodding of the sheep' takes place.
From The Song of our Syrian Guest by William Allen Knight
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