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In the first, the laser was directed onto the top of a cemented carbide rod, with the rod positioned ahead of the direction in which the material was being built.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

But what turned a summer blockbuster into an IMAX-sized lightning rod?

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

Once underwater, they sliced through the ship’s steel using a torch with a self-consuming rod burning at thousands of degrees Fahrenheit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Despite its humorous origins, the CJP group quickly became a lightning rod for India's disaffected young people.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

After using his machete to hack his way through the dense foliage—all while getting stung and bitten by wasps and ants—Kermit would set up the sighting rod.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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

Vision begins when rods and cones in the retina detect light.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

Fishermen still cast their rods along the river’s banks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

A fisherman packed up his rods next to a family picnicking on the waterfront.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

Sixteen and a half feet times 480 rods.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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

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

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

"And then she will return with him to India, I take it" She rodded.

From A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever

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

Thus, in 1930 — long before hot rodding went mainstream after World War II — a hopped-up car was a gow job.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

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

I had received many a smart rodding, before I was able to repeat it over; but I at length succeeded in getting it pit-pat.

From The Boy Tar by Edward Read