pulley
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I saw my patient had opened the door by using a pulley in his mouth.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
“A lot of people like to store their lily pads from boating on a hoist,” pulley system, she says.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
A pulley, a bucket, a smartphone and an e-SIM: this is how a “network tree” is built in Gaza.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2024
A firefighter was lowered into the hole via rope and other equipment as other rescuers held onto a pulley system rigged up at the surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Emma screamed and kicked at it with her other foot as the net came to a jolting stop, the pulley above too weak to raise all of us and the hollow, too.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
While contemporaries struggled with airborne instability, Wilbur and Orville Wright used a system of pulleys to warp their aircraft's fabric wings, allowing a pilot to bank and turn with greater ease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
His trips also revealed ornate loom pulleys and pottery, challenging stereotypes that African art is "limited to masks and figures", Oberhofer added.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
He writes his great-grandfather's "technical diagrams of ramps and pulleys suggest that he was also a trained engineer who couldn't resist a project".
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
The bears lived in a treehouse surrounded by innovative systems of rigs and pulleys.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2025
Then there were more sounds of cranking and grinding of gears and pulleys.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
Vocabulary lists containing pulley
Force and Motion (Mechanics) - Middle School
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Engineering - Introductory
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