contraption
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This contraption, the X-59, might just be the future of air travel.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Four iterations later and the contraption is sturdy enough to withstand the full force of Lenny, an 8-year-old Labrador mix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
ROMONT, Switzerland—Willy Wonka would have marveled at one of the machines at a manufacturing plant here—a contraption that injects flavors into coffee capsules via a set of whirring tubes labeled “hazelnut,” “caramel,” and “blueberry cheesecake.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
The barber chair, the locus of Sweeney’s revenge on the heartless cruelty of a Victorian London that wrecked his life, isn’t the elaborate contraption of other productions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
“An’ of course the dogs can hike along all day with that contraption behind them,” affirmed a second of the men.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
There was a reason these contraptions belonged to the Chili’s end of the dining spectrum.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
Next, an interior shot, sweeping across a gleaming white room occupied by sleek screens and glass-domed beds, space-age Sleeping Beauty contraptions.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Sensors on the 12-foot metal contraptions measure wind speed, direction, temperature, humidity and pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Last year's Tears of the Kingdom, for example, allowed players to build strange contraptions and led to memorable creations such as a giant robotic Godzilla.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024
They are complicated contraptions with hundreds of parts, every one of which feeds back through wires to the control room.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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