cylinder
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Now bend the paper into a cylinder without stretching or tearing it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
I’m not sold on the V4’s cylinder deactivation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
But Austrian startup CycloTech says it can make aircraft even nimbler with its motors -- shaped like an open cylinder with the sides made up of several wing-shaped blades.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
“It’s right here,” glaciologist Alison Criscitiello says, pointing to a nearly invisible gray smudge behind the glass, on a 5-foot-long, 1,550-year-old bisected cylinder of ice.
From Slate ● May 8, 2026
He constructed a cylinder containing a small amount of water, which he heated over a flame.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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"Let's not pull any punches here. I'm firing on all cylinders at the moment. I feel fantastic. I'm 38 years young."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Four larger cylinders were positioned on a rotating carousel in a configuration resembling four candlesticks on an old-fashioned chandelier.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
To support Henry Bacon’s Parthenon-like building and Daniel Chester French’s colossal statue, builders had to sink 122 hollow steel cylinders deep into the marshy soil to reach bedrock, then fill each pillar with concrete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Businesses face an array of challengers, however, so the economy isn’t firing on all cylinders.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
I ’membered everything Pap tolt me ’bout shooting and looked in the pistol’s cylinders to check the bullets.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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