riveted

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Last summer he riveted the internet with eccentric scenes of martial arts training with Shaolin monks in China, his head shaved in solidarity.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

The 12-foot-tall press punches ribbons of the sheet steel into hardened metal dies that bend and shape the steel into dump-truck beds, frames and other parts that are riveted together.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

And it works: The children sit riveted throughout the 20-minute presentation, despite notoriously short preschool attention spans.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

"These bits here are the most impacted by rust," Petr told me, pointing at a nest of riveted joints and beams.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

My eyes were riveted to it, and to me it was like a battering-ram or the bows of an icebreaker or maybe a couple of high-explosive bombs.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl