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stanchion

[stan-shuhn] / ˈstæn ʃən /


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He had a ferocious one-handed dunk off a Doncic assist that got Hayes so amped up that he head-butted the basket stanchion in celebration.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2025

That’s because it plans to run two lines simultaneously on either side of a new, shorter stanchion.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

The debris was determined to be part of a stanchion used to mount batteries on a cargo pallet.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2024

He landed near the basket stanchion and immediately began grabbing at his left knee, while teammates reacted in obvious disbelief.

From Washington Times Apr. 23, 2023

But on a snowy night in the early 1980s, a car skidded into a stanchion, which hit him in the back.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Executives bided their time behind stanchions in a fully-occupied and grey-carpeted room with bright overhead lighting in the Congress Center, the event hub for the annual confab in Davos.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2026

And you're funneled through a labyrinth of retractable stanchions like you’re about to meet a costumed mouse at Magic Kingdom, not a budtender named Jade.

From Salon Apr. 20, 2025

This alternative offers a tap-and-go method instead of GameFace ID, still allowing fans to move seamlessly throughout the arena, though with the extra step of touching their phones to the stanchions mentioned earlier.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 23, 2024

By Sunday afternoon, plastic stanchions and red caution tape cordoned off the corner of the building, where some glass and rubble from the smashed facade still lay.

From Seattle Times Nov. 5, 2023

Everything possible was carved with designs, even the stanchions where the goats put their heads and the stalls in the little barn.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

In a time shorter than it takes to tell it, the two doomed men are made fast to the stanchioned chairs; where they sit bolt upright, firm as bollard heads.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

Such a one stands in the centre, its legs fixed in the floor, with four chairs around it, similarly stanchioned.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

They mustered eighteen in all, and in half an hour they were ironed in a row along the stanchioned rail of the torpedo-boat.

From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson

The doors were closed, and the windows were stanchioned with iron.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie

It is set lengthwise, fore and aft, a stout hair-cloth chair at top, another at bottom, and one at each side—all, like the table, stanchioned to the timbers of the half-deck.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid




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