pulley
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A cable and pulley assembly: pulls the shuttle back down the catapult for the next launch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Prior to the police operation, most of the miners were only able to get underground through a makeshift pulley system operated by people at the surface.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
I saw my patient had opened the door by using a pulley in his mouth.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
They had watched the situation spiral as the protesters stood their ground, refusing to abandon Hamilton Hall and using a pulley system to bring supplies into the building they had occupied.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2024
One end of the great barn was piled high with new hay and over the pile hung the four-taloned Jackson fork suspended from its pulley.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
Nepal’s Tourism Board on Saturday shared on its Facebook page a list of equipment requested by the local authorities in Rasuwa district, including body bags, pulleys and personal protective equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
His trips also revealed ornate loom pulleys and pottery, challenging stereotypes that African art is "limited to masks and figures", Oberhofer added.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
He writes his great-grandfather's "technical diagrams of ramps and pulleys suggest that he was also a trained engineer who couldn't resist a project".
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
The bears lived in a treehouse surrounded by innovative systems of rigs and pulleys.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2025
The cable was erected in 1970 to chart the Teklanika’s seasonal fluctuations; hydrologists traveled back and forth above the river by means of an aluminum basket that is suspended from the cable with pulleys.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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Force and Motion (Mechanics) - Middle School
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