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truss

[truhs] / trʌs /


NOUN
framework
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An aluminum truss provided infrastructure, and custom joints, gimbals and animatronics gave the astronaut life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

It is to his credit that the cathedral is not a simulacrum or facsimile, but a Gothic building, in all its structural reality, even the invisible oak roof truss above the vaults.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

Or The French Laundry’s Thomas Keller, who gently speaks to Carmy about the profound spirituality of their profession and the legacy he’s continuing, all while teaching him how to truss a chicken.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2024

“We got the best truss guy in the city,” said Danielle Kramer, the company’s chief operating officer.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

She blushed, she dropped the removed truss, she stepped back on a stack of irrigation basins—and her feet went out from under her.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

On the second floor, a generous dining space and an open kitchen with marble surfaces, warm-wood cabinetry, and one of the building’s original steel trusses await.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

Repairs to 40,000 square feet of the roof and the replacement of metal roof trusses are under way, Fisher said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

I saw that the house had great bones, beams and trusses, but it was just in disrepair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025

The roof is long gone and huge timber roof trusses that once supported it have been stacked up in the street outside.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025

The trusses were in place but no roof.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

It’s a childish performance that is trussed up as an important meditation on the Declaration.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

"He's not used to being all trussed up like that, you see."

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2023

Don't cut your carrot on the board you just trussed the chicken on either.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2023

Two, trussed onto hooks, hung in each pot sent down to the sea bottom, where their carcasses would be picked to the bone by snow crab.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2022

Facing them were two Keepers, and next to them, trussed up like a lumpy package on the floor, was Ton-Ton.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

Don't go directly from trussing a chicken to chopping a carrot.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2023

PSSL: Many of PSSL’s Black Friday deals are for pro lighting and trussing, but one product in particular is worth noting: it’s offering the MXL Revelation Solo Tube Condenser Microphone for only $299.99.

From The Verge ● Nov. 22, 2017

In fact, Mr. Waxman said, a great turkey needn’t involve an all-day roasting marathon, or a battery of treatments such as brining, trussing and lacquering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2015

If you've ever roasted a whole chicken for dinner, or tackled the big task of roasting the turkey for Thanksgiving, you probably know the importance of tying up the bird, or "trussing."

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2014

On either side of us the cars hissed past; red on the left and white on the right, the lanes encased by thin metal trussing that stretched out from the walkway.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini




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