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[rig] / rɪg /






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It was 4 or 5 in the morning, the last shot of the whole season, and there was this entire balloon rig.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2026

“As silly as that is, it’s one of those little things we use every day,” he says of the towel rig.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Simon Wallace became an avid follower of online astrophotographers while he was off work during Covid and now has a fully-automated rig at his home near Stowmarket, Suffolk.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

That included a tank chase shot largely on a street in Glasgow, Scotland, on the first day of filming, complete with a rig that let an actor swing with explosions going off behind him.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

This had been his first job as the top man on a rig, and he’d hit oil in the first week of drilling.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

Next year, it plans to deploy 12 more rigs and, in 2028 and beyond, an additional two rigs a month.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

It also said it is completing the purchase of drilling rigs for the new project, which would initially involve two blocks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

In 1997-98, when Venezuelan production reached nearly 3.4 million barrels a day, there were some 119 active drilling rigs in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

Drilling rigs are a measure of investor confidence.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

At the end of 1981, a record 4,530 drilling rigs were running in the United States.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

The film recounts French high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s astonishing 1974 stunt, in which he and a small band of co-conspirators secretly rigged a cable between the towers, allowing Petit to walk high above lower Manhattan.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

So he did the unthinkable: He sent a tractor rigged with a water tank and hoses into the vineyard to hydrate his most vulnerable vines.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

And an 'altitude room' being rigged up in his bedroom.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

The president’s son was accused by his own former business partner of asking a UFC commentator whether Sunday’s fights were rigged and whether he should place a bet on the opening bout.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

I rigged a snow shelter and made a lean-to with a tarp and dug snow caves for the dogs and we holed up to wait until the worst of the cold had passed.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

"It's rigging the game to win rather than playing by the rules," said Koneschusky, the former Senate aide.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

With its tar-soaked rigging, creaking oak deck and 50 spruce oars, Draken Harald Harfagre is the largest modern replica of a Viking ship.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

Fairley’s lawyer has declined to comment on the college-basketball rigging accusations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 27, 2026

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said there was no overlap between the D.A.’s election rigging case and the bribery case against Galvan.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 3, 2026

Mackenzie sat at a table, puffing peacefully on a pipe, and working at the minute, intricate rigging of a model schooner, while his wife read Three Men in a Boat aloud to him.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford




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