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wheel

[hweel, weel] / ʰwil, wil /




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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

“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

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

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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