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flywheel

[flahy-hweel, -weel] / ˈflaɪˌʰwil, -ˌwil /
NOUN
balance wheel
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“Taken together, our brand flywheel is working,” Niccol said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

The crown jewel, and the key to making the entire flywheel business model work, is Disney’s animation division.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

The medium of animation itself is a structural reason why other film studios haven’t achieved Disney’s success: it is uniquely well-suited to form the core of such a flywheel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Whilst these devices are designed for longer term space missions, the recent Artemis II mission around the moon took a specially developed exercise device called the flywheel.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

It passed the flywheel, sending the flags spinning, then fell into the final drop.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

Images on social media purport to show one of the chairlift's flywheels off it's spoke.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2025

For the MK-3, Dart Zone’s using serrated flywheels that appear to be slightly shredding every dart I fire out the end.

From The Verge ● Sep. 29, 2021

G.M., in other words, was adept at creating flywheels.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2019

Excess solar energy will be stored via flywheels housed in a communal building.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 14, 2017

It grew louder, angrier, and suggested the high-velocity spin of flywheels or electric turbines turning at impossible speed.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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