axle
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Foiling the visual expectations of a lifetime, the four-door’s glass roof joins the car’s sloping rear deck just over the rear axle, omitting a transparent panel of any kind.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
In many instances, teams are using high-speed parts of the track to reduce engine output to the rear axle and charge the battery instead, a process known as "clipping".
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026
Next up is the E-Ray, with the 6.2-liter V8 aided by an electric motor on the front axle, starting at $108,600.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
Norris was not at one with the car, was finding it difficult to feel the front axle when he was trying to take it to the limit in qualifying.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025
A chain weighing twenty thousand pounds connected a sprocket on the axle to sprockets driven by twin thousand-horsepower steam engines.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing axle
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