escalator
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If a word becomes too much of a generic term, companies risk losing their trademark — as happened for Escalator, which was originally a name brand of escalators.
From The Verge • Feb. 19, 2020
Escalator steps are 8 inches high, compared to 7 inches for concrete stairs.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2018
Escalator banks descend through a sleek, silent black ticket hall where towering, empty, white-tiled passageways snake toward the new, vaulted train platform, curving like a half moon into the subterranean darkness.
From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2017
Escalator Over the Hill, and all the many representations of Bley's idiosyncratic eloquence since, are enduring proof of her value.
From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2011
A double row of Escalator Fives Courts lined the main road from Notting Hill to Willesden.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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