wheel
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A wheel can spin continuously around a fixed axle, allowing it to rotate without disturbing whatever it supports.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Because it’s true, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
The future is the Cybercab, a vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals that will autonomously convey customers in a fleet of robotaxis for hire.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Inside the cab or the tractor, there remains a steering wheel and seats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
With shaking hands, I fed the straw through the wheel and spun, holding my breath, ready for it to break and fall to the ground, just to mock me.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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“His wheels weren’t hot enough to get away!” the police department wrote in the post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
As Mr. Jay observes, these devices belong to “the long history of spiritual technologies, the twenty-first century’s prayer wheels or shaman’s drums.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
During the demo, which was livestreamed on Tesla's X account, the car launched from a steep steel ramp and performed a full barrel roll in mid-air before landing on its wheels.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Unfortunately for Bottas the World Championships take place this weekend as well, so he will be competing on four wheels instead of two.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The Field Machine was gigantic, like a house on wheels.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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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
McConnell, played by Mikey Day, was wheeled onto the set and struggled to deliver his lines, while Jeremy Culhane’s Vance was quickly dismissed after introducing himself.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
The Skims founder is then shown in a hospital bed in a series of clips, one in which it appears she’s being wheeled into a procedure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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
Suddenly Lizza wheeled and ran out the door.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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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
On a recent afternoon, volunteers bustled around the museum wheeling carts of jaws and vertebrae carefully organized by species.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
And now I can recall the picture of the grey old house of God rising calm before me, of a rook wheeling round the steeple, of a ruddy morning sky beyond.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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