metal
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Only once did attendees pass through a security checkpoint with metal detectors, one level above the primary ballroom entrances.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
Outside the restroom, Cole Tomas Allen, 31, had broken into a sprint through the metal detectors, security footage would later show, getting within feet of the ballroom entrance.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026
In his classic 1958 essay, “I, Pencil,” Leonard Read explained how a free-market economy brought together the necessary raw materials—wood, graphite, metal, rubber, paint—to make as apparently simple a product as a pencil.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
The metal frame is expanded, pushing aside the old valve and sealing the replacement valve in place.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Betsie by the very way she sat evoked a high-backed chair behind her and a carpet at her feet instead of this endless row of metal cots on a bare pine floor.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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