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wheel

[hweel, weel] / ʰwil, wil /




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"After dark, floodwater is much harder to see, and it's impossible to judge how deep it is from behind the wheel," the city said in a post on Facebook.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

For the actors it was also an opportunity to reflect on the importance of friendship, and to share stories from behind the wheel.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Spies always reminds her students that it’s up to them to reinvent the wheel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Archaeologists later excavated a sword still in its scabbard, decorated straps, buckles, rings, ornaments and chariot wheel axle caps.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The two wheel dogs, the dogs that ran side by side directly in front of the sled, were named Thunder and Lightning.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Eventually, they designed small robots on wheels with motion and obstacle sensors and are now installing them in more than a dozen warehouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Now she’s returning the favor by asking a German state leader to grease the organizing wheels for the UAW at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Ala.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Crucially, with the broader market spinning its wheels of late, surging earnings mean price-to-earnings multiples have dropped.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

He also suggested parking with wheels turned into the gutter rather than left straight if parking on the street, as this also makes a vehicle harder for thieves to move.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

She listened for the grating chug of the wheels and metal-on-metal screech of the brakes as the train rounded each curve, but it was still too far away.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

On another occasion, Pillinger loaded a Beagle 2 replica into a supermarket trolley and wheeled it around The Open University's car park, demonstrating its compact size to cameras.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

TMZ published photos of someone who appears to be Graham being wheeled outside of his home and into an ambulance.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

As the hulking metal cage, weighing more than a tonne, was lowered from the truck and wheeled into the museum, the gathering burst into applause.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

As he was wheeled away to a waiting ambulance, Gil wore an oxygen mask and neck brace, and his face showed bruising.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

All at once he wheeled about and flew upwards, perching at the entrance to his nest-hole in the stunted oak.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

In another OnScene.TV video, officers were seen wheeling away someone on a gurney.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

I’m wheeling my bike off it with balletic ease, definitely not annoying my fellow commuters as I lug it down the stairs.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

"I think Samos was the perfect place to start," the 21-year-old university student said, wheeling her luggage alongside her mother as they waited for a ferry off the Greek island of Samos.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

When the convention was first announced, it sounded like it might be a thrilling opportunity to see real wheeling and dealing on a convention floor from which a nominee would eventually emerge.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026

I then took to wheeling in a big color television so that we might spend an hour watching One Life to Live.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris




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