caisson
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For years, members of the tiny preservation society — their ages now ranging from 60s to 80s — have flown out in helicopters, landing on the caisson.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2025
A soldier, gingerly, with almost mechanical precision, removed the silver urn containing Megellas’s cremated remains from the caisson and carried it to the gravesite.
From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2022
The next day, the casket was carried out of the Capitol, down the central stairs on the east side of the complex and strapped onto a waiting horse-drawn caisson.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021
On November 11, 1921, the Unknown was placed on a horse-drawn caisson and carried in a procession through Washington, D.C. and across the Potomac River.
From Fox News • Oct. 4, 2021
Eads discovered that workers began experiencing the bends at sixty feet below ground, roughly half the depth to which a Chicago caisson would have to descend.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing caisson
Civil Engineering
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Engineering - Middle School
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Engineering - High School
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