fastener
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In Tesla’s labs, the nearly 6-foot-tall machine practices rote tasks like sorting Legos by color, folding laundry and using a drill to screw a fastener, former employees said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026
Fastenal, the fastener maker, reported third-quarter earnings of 29 cents a share, missing analysts’ estimates of 30 cents, as revenue of $2.13 billion match expectations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
Boeing removed every fastener on each of the five circumferential joins on all of those airplanes, about 2,000 fasteners for each join, and measured the gap at each hole — a so-called “through-hole” inspection.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
The British Museum also announced some "significant" new finds made since 2022, including a late Bronze Age dress fastener.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2024
He picked up a brown clipboard from a desk and popped the fastener up and down while he tried to decide what to do with us.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Purveyors of bearings, fasteners, pneumatics and other manufacturing staples should see demand outpace their capacity to easily meet it, potentially leading to bottlenecks similar to what investors are seeing with memory chips.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
The body panels have exposed fasteners, allowing—even encouraging—DIY’ers to swap out panels and upgrade exterior features, such as fog lights, signals, headlights and taillights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
That event delayed the production of fasteners needed to assemble jets.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Aerospace and defense—where Carpenter’s alloys are used for landing gear, fasteners, and other components—comprises two-thirds of revenue.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
He has a denim jacket with a lot of snap fasteners on it.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
