shear

“Too much vertical wind shear tears apart hurricanes.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Increased wind shear rips apart thunderstorms, preventing them from growing into tropical storms or hurricanes.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

To him it was a sin not to shear the sheep.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

Its work, largely paid for with federal funds, has allowed for major improvements in the prediction of extreme weather events and a reduction in the number of air accidents caused by severe wind shear.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

As it did, wind shear blew it laterally off course.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

While Ernest Wright is proud of its long history, its the latest manufacturing technology that has helped it create a niche in the market for scissors and shears.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Instead the final four candidates for the job were a range of eager submissives, each straining to appear enthusiastic to pick up the pruning shears and start cutting rates by the bunch:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

That means buying fresh lobsters from your local market, boiling them and using kitchen shears to slice their shells from head to tail.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024

As our planet’s atmosphere warms, wind shears — variations in wind direction or speed — within jet streams are increasing and therefore strengthening clear-air turbulence.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

“At ease, dependent,” the barber replied, his shears cutting deep swaths into Ben’s hair.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

As of Monday, the closure had sheared 16 million barrels from daily oil supplies, according to JPMorgan Chase analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

And so the men counted to three and they pushed, and Plymouth Rock sheared in half.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024

That building still stood, but the walls on the second floor were sheared off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2024

The paper also considers how a sheared flow, which occurs when adjacent particles move at different flow speeds, can impact the pedestal height and width.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

Darin’s calm is sheared away as if by a scythe, his face blanched with a horror I feel down to my bones.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Sutton said the sheep "definitely felt better" after it was shorn last week.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

Spurs are a very poor team, shorn of confidence and self-belief, looking on course for the Championship.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

Viollet-le-Duc’s conception of Gothic architecture, shorn of religious, sentimental and romantic associations, was radically modern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

Examining a song’s lyrics shorn of the music can highlight the themes that a songwriter such as Johnny Cash or John Darnielle returns to over time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

They could knit goat-hair blankets for shorn sheep.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

A farmer has swapped sheep shearing in Dorset for WWE wrestling in the US.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

A backlight sufficient to be useful would disturb the laminar flow of air rushing across the rear decklid, increasing shearing turbulence and drag at the back of the car.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

"They've lost their livelihoods, they've lost their shearing sheds, livestock, just absolutely devastating," he told national broadcaster ABC.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

To that end, the dire wolf was bigger than the grey wolves that existed at the same time, with large, shearing teeth carrying an extremely strong bite force.

From Salon ● May 15, 2025

Actually, he was thinking about shearing his sheep in front of the merchant’s daughter, so that she could see that he was someone who was capable of doing difficult things.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho