bolt
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Look for the major tournaments to bolt for the Big Ten.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Fireworks are also traumatizing for pets, particularly dogs, which tremble and even bolt from their homes in fear.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Whether the form has legs, wheels or a tower, it still needs actuators, sensors, edge compute, safety systems and someone to bolt it into a line.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
For Denise it came as a bolt from the blue.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
And I haven’t even mentioned yet that I had earned a second bolt with my quick thinking at the inn.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Workers will install 350 bolts for containment booms in the east of the gulf.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Chinese nuts and bolts quicker than Usain Bolt.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
I wasn’t able to get downtown so I would go to Home Depot and buy rings and bolts and I would just put them on the clothes and build things around it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
An expert called to the Newham site after the accident said some of the bolts were missing, and the KC claimed there was a "culture and practice" of assembling the cage without key pieces.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Professor Overbrook bolts the door and sets the security system.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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