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conveyor

[kuhn-vey-er] / kənˈveɪ ər /
NOUN
assembly line
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NOUN
elevator
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Large cracks were on walls, and the airport’s check-in areas and its baggage conveyor belt were covered with bricks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

“Until you have stronger economic growth and are less constrained by debt, it’s highly likely the conveyor belt of PMs will continue.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

Like Furbank, he represents that conveyor belt of Northampton talent, crowning a superb 18 months in which he has debuted for England and the British and Irish Lions.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

In one part of the conveyor system, a vibrating panel called an eddy current creates a sort of reverse magnet that repels nonferrous materials like aluminum beverage cans into their own collection area.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

As I inched forward along the conveyor, flat-screen monitors mounted overhead showed the same ten-minute training film over and over, on an endless loop: “Indentured Servitude: Your Fast Track from Debt to Success!”

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Murphy Road Recycling’s material recovery facility in Berlin, Conn., uses a largely unmanned system of conveyors, magnets, optical sorters and pneumatic blocks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

Phil became what few others in the arts or entertainment remain — conveyors of authentically good news.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2025

Once the pages are printed, they are trucked to a nearby bindery and fed into a whirring machine of conveyors, choppers and hot glue.

From New York Times Jun. 16, 2024

“The biggest challenges were getting it all up and running, literally within a few days to build the conveyors, establish the technological chains, the processes,” Shtipelman said.

From Reuters May 16, 2022

Shifts might come and go, one lupus-coloured face give place to another; majestically and for ever the conveyors crept forward with their load of future men and women.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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