dumbbell
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Atlas has yet to be put to work in factories, but videos put out by Boston Dynamics show the humanoid picking up auto parts, pumping a dumbbell and plucking a tissue from a box.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025
“I bought the first one of these on EBay,” Rogen said of a standing Maurice Chalvignac ashtray that looks like the lovechild of a dumbbell and a Q-tip.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2024
"The dumbbell thus acts a bit like the needle on a compass, allowing us to read off the z coordinate according to its orientation," says Prof. Dr. Dieter Meschede.
From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024
Carrasco, 36, was lifting weights before Sunday’s game against Seattle when he set down a 50-pound dumbbell and it flipped over, landing on his pinky, Showalter said before New York played at Washington.
From Washington Times • Sep. 6, 2023
I could tell he was in a deep sleep because his full weight squashed into my intestines like a five-hundred-pound dumbbell.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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