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cantilever

[kan-tl-ee-ver, -ev-er] / ˈkæn tlˌi vər, -ˌɛv ər /






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I love this house at 10 o’clock because of the cantilever and the shadows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

Over the next 70 years, nearly 50 giant cantilever cranes were built worldwide, with about half of them involving companies based in or near Glasgow.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

When the cantilever is placed on one of the nanoparticles, a current is passed through its tip to measure the conductivity.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 12, 2024

Columns sway back and forth, like a cantilever swing, creating ample space for large groups to walk through.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

This river we crossed by a wooden bridge, built on the cantilever principle, and which a couple of months later was washed away.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury

Rapidly-sinking rays streaming through the gaps of the cantilevers onto the pitch.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024

Where the top level extends cantilevers out to create a covered porch, it is supported by a pair of tree trunks that Austin’s builder, Kaplan Homes, found washed up on the beach.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2024

Saarinen’s concrete structure, with its soaring, winglike vaulted roof, its huge fields of glass, and its thrilling interior curves, cantilevers and airy mezzanines, is one of the great buildings of the past century.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2019

BIG says the disused cantilevers could be turned into more parkland or parking lots, revenue-generating shops or apartments, whatever Brooklynites wanted.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2019

What a surprising passion of engineering the spider must go through in the dark hours, to get his struts and cantilevers and his circling gossamer girders properly disposed on the foliage.*

From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Christopher Morley

A few steps from the hotel, a cantilevered pedestrian bridge spans Falls Park on the Reedy, a wooded ravine with cascading waterfalls and leafy footpaths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Just after sundown, I arrived at the 602-room Fairmont Monte Carlo, cantilevered over the Mediterranean for superb sea views.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

The 4,142-square-foot cantilevered post-and-beam structure, nestled in a woodsy hillside with canyon and coastline views, went on the market for $12 million in April.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025

As the sun set on a cloudy evening in Times Square on Friday, a 65-foot-long frankfurter cantilevered into the sky and spewed out a blast of rainbow confetti.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2024

You are looking at the only cantilevered structure of its kind on earth.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

That could include tunneling, cantilevering lanes or other ideas the private sector might suggest to limit Beltway widening, he said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2019

Museum and designer retreated from the idea of cantilevering a wing over the principal tar pool.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2019

“Now we’re cantilevering the stairs from top to bottom.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2011

He was creative from the time he was cantilevering building blocks.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2011

It's a taxidermist's dream, with massive forelegs and a rack that should need cantilevering.

From Time Magazine Archive




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