rod
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I’ve been a lightning rod for pain a couple of times in my career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
In the first, the laser was directed onto the top of a cemented carbide rod, with the rod positioned ahead of the direction in which the material was being built.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
But what turned a summer blockbuster into an IMAX-sized lightning rod?
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
He became a millionaire in the process and his legacy in southern Africa has become a lightning rod for discussions about "decolonising" institutions which continue to bear his name.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Their pulling made the tumbling rod keep rolling over, and the rod moved the machinery of the separator, which stood beside the stack of wheat.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
He has also used the technology for art installations with flexible rods that, when speared into the ground, have tips that glow in the dark like fireflies on tall grass.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Vision begins when rods and cones in the retina detect light.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
George W. Bush’s administration tried repeatedly to prevent Russia, which was also supplying fuel rods, from actually making Bushehr operational unless Iran guaranteed it would return all spent fuel to Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
A fisherman packed up his rods next to a family picnicking on the waterfront.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
How can she sleep with those rods in her hair?
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
About 10% of the conduit lines were rodded twice, owing to partial sections having been rodded once before completion.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 by Lavis, F.
The best continuous work on rodding was done between October 22d and 29th, 1908, when in 7 working days, 105,600 duct ft. were rodded, an average of a little more than 15,000 ft. per day.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 by Lavis, F.
"And then she will return with him to India, I take it" She rodded.
From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James
One Forquer, who was Lincoln's opponent, had recently rodded his house—and every one knew it.
From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ketcham, Henry
The lines were rodded in both directions from alternate manholes, thus avoiding uncoupling the rods and allowing every pull to be effective in pushing the mandrel through the ducts.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 by Lavis, F.
The fruitful association has made Stielow a household name in hot rodding.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
Thus, in 1930 — long before hot rodding went mainstream after World War II — a hopped-up car was a gow job.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
I love that culture of hot rodding and classic cars.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2021
“We’re returning to the roots of hot rodding, basically, where you’re trying to build something cool with what you had,” Thaemert said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2014
The cost, including labor, material, and all tools, for rodding for the whole work was slightly less than 0.2 cent per duct ft.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 by Lavis, F.
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