torque
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There’s high-output tuning that’s standard on the off-road-ready Tremor trim and optional on the Platinum; it puts out a hearty 440 hp and 510 lb-ft of torque.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
Like electric cars, the bikes accelerate quickly with a rush of instant torque and make little noise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The resulting electrostatic force produced torque in the opposite direction from the gravitational torque.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
“And as he said, as we feel, it’s the pitching and the torque of landing on that leg that kind of gets it upset.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Victarion gave the priest a golden torque as a reward.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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During flight, the AI-based policy receives information about the robot's position and converts it into real-time commands controlling factors such as thrust force and torques.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
However, Mach's explanation could not account for the reverse rotations and torques measured during the new experiments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Ultimately, though, the author torques her contrarianism past trolling, past knee-jerk philosophizing and past satire, alchemizing a critique of literary culture in all its ideological waywardness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
Some of the white terracotta tiles that cover the building’s facade were haphazardly installed, wrecking the precise geometries of a design that ripples and torques.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
“Lord Bowen, you shall collect the tolls. The gold and silver, the amber, the torques and armbands and necklaces. Sort it all, count it, see that it reaches Eastwatch safely.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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Argentine lifestyle impresario Alan Faena opened his namesake New York hotel late last year in the bottom of a torqued high rise by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
The centerpiece of Chicago’s wildly successful Millennium Park, the bandshell’s billowing 120-foot proscenium, supported by a web of aluminum arms, is fronted by dozens of torqued stainless steel ribbons, which exuberantly frame the stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
Four split discs of aluminum hang from the ceiling at torqued angles.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2024
In December, a Tesla supplier implemented improved process controls along with improved training and supervision to ensure bolts are torqued to specifications, the automaker said.
From Reuters ● Mar. 4, 2023
There was a grinding shudder—then a twisted ship which looked as if some giant had taken a wet rag and torqued it to squeeze out the water.
From A Woman's Place by Mark Clifton
After years spent clenching, tightening and torquing myself out of all types of alignment, I am ready to surrender my way back to something like order.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Seats in that area showed signs of damage, including sheared oxygen masks, lost headrests and torquing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
Wilson claims it designed a tool to install bolts and fasteners on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner starting in 2012, and alleged that misuse of its stolen torquing tool led to leaks aboard the International Space Station.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
In a certain sense it was taking codes from the dominant culture and torquing them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
“Anya, look!” he said, torquing his arm back and forth.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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