appurtenances
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“This wildfire was started by sparks from high-voltage transmission lines, distribution lines, appurtenances, and other electrical equipment within PacifiCorp’s utility infrastructure that ignited surrounding vegetation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
Or, underneath the cultural appurtenances of Hawaiian life, were the islanders behaving rationally and pragmatically, much as any other people might?
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2019
For all its stark lines and modern appurtenances, its whirr of data in mid-process, it too is an archaicism, two centuries behind the times.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2018
In fact, it is the whole package — the dress, the background, the appurtenances of wealth and power — that matters.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2016
When Mother was at home, she made him wear such appurtenances as a coat and a belt.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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