wheel
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That system would remain in place for those who don’t want insurers tracking them and looking over their shoulder every time they get behind the wheel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
At the second they were able to remove it and send him on his way again with the wheel unencumbered, the steering issues he was suffering before that eradicated.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The company has been testing its autonomous vehicles in San Diego with a safety driver behind the wheel since earlier this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Since World War II the alliance had worked like a wheel: The U.S. as the indispensable hub and the rest as spokes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
My fingers itched to feed one thing through the wheel and watch it transform to another before my very eyes.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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And, perhaps most memorably significant, the Trojan Horse is discovered half-submerged on the beach, and not outside Troy’s gates on wheels.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
It also set in motion, Clay Risen writes, “the wheels of myth-making, idealism, and national self-interest that would guide the country through the twentieth century.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
How does that work, wondered young American Brad Parks, when his front wheels were like a skateboard's and the back ones like a bike's, and he wanted to play tennis?
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 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
I was about a half mile away from the shack when my ears picked up the rumbling of wheels and the thunder of hooves.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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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 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
On the Afghan side of the Torkham border crossing, children and adults wheeled their luggage or carried belongings atop their heads, as they moved from desk to desk to log their arrival.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
By the mid-15th century, handguns—the term for portable firearms as contrasted with artillery pieces mounted on wheeled carriages—were in regular battlefield use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
If his mental subcontractor detected a level of interest in what you had just said, it radioed a signal to the mother ship, which then wheeled around with the most intense focus.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Because of their wheeling and dealing, they also have three first-round picks next year when the class of passers is projected to be much deeper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
While the crossings remain closed, life has regained a semblance of normality, with bakers kneading bread, fruit and vegetable sellers wheeling out their carts, and customers frequenting shops.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
The wheeling and dealing has continued during the season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2025
"And they were wheeling that infusion pump and everything else with them."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
It seemed to Shasta only a second before a whole line of the enemy were on horseback again, wheeling round to meet them, swinging towards them.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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