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conveyor

[kuhn-vay-er] / kənˈveɪ ər /
NOUN
assembly line
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NOUN
elevator
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In late 2022, the company unveiled a smaller-format restaurant outside Fort Worth, Texas, designed around customers ordering ahead through an app and collecting their food from a conveyor system.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

He said he was "screamed" at after trying to remove his bag of stoma supplies from the conveyor belt after security screening.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

To some, marketing engineer is merely the latest on that conveyor belt of titles: a regular marketer dressed up in the AI fashion of the day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

I, too, couldn’t shake the thought of a meat factory and almost instantly, realized I wanted off the conveyor belt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Ancient-looking bronze and leather conveyor belts trundled along with stacks of weapons and armor, sort of like the Amazons’ warehouse in Seattle, except this place was obviously much older and not as well organized.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Otherwise, the system of conveyors, magnets, optical sorters and pneumatic blocks runs largely unmanned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 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 investment will be used to support new conveyors, tooling and equipment in the body and general assembly areas of the plant that manufactures GM's Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 trucks.

From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2023

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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