striking

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Subsequently striking up a friendship with Charles Babbage, an inventor and mechanical engineer, Lovelace would become fascinated with his plans to build a complicated calculating machine.

From BBC

Yet one magnetic painting is atypical of that first stay in the Taos area: a striking ponderosa pine.

From The Wall Street Journal

Executives say the looser rules will allow them to compete more in corners of lending they have largely abdicated because of the capital costs, like to riskier companies or private-equity firms striking deals.

From The Wall Street Journal

It followed Israel’s striking of Iran’s South Pars gas field, one of the largest natural gas fields in the world.

From MarketWatch

It followed Israel’s striking of Iran’s South Pars gas field, one of the largest natural gas fields in the world.

From MarketWatch