rig
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It was 4 or 5 in the morning, the last shot of the whole season, and there was this entire balloon rig.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
“As silly as that is, it’s one of those little things we use every day,” he says of the towel rig.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Simon Wallace became an avid follower of online astrophotographers while he was off work during Covid and now has a fully-automated rig at his home near Stowmarket, Suffolk.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
That included a tank chase shot largely on a street in Glasgow, Scotland, on the first day of filming, complete with a rig that let an actor swing with explosions going off behind him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
This had been his first job as the top man on a rig, and he’d hit oil in the first week of drilling.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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Next year, it plans to deploy 12 more rigs and, in 2028 and beyond, an additional two rigs a month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
It also said it is completing the purchase of drilling rigs for the new project, which would initially involve two blocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
In 1997-98, when Venezuelan production reached nearly 3.4 million barrels a day, there were some 119 active drilling rigs in the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Drilling rigs are a measure of investor confidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
At the end of 1981, a record 4,530 drilling rigs were running in the United States.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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The film recounts French high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s astonishing 1974 stunt, in which he and a small band of co-conspirators secretly rigged a cable between the towers, allowing Petit to walk high above lower Manhattan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
So he did the unthinkable: He sent a tractor rigged with a water tank and hoses into the vineyard to hydrate his most vulnerable vines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
And an 'altitude room' being rigged up in his bedroom.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
The president’s son was accused by his own former business partner of asking a UFC commentator whether Sunday’s fights were rigged and whether he should place a bet on the opening bout.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
I rigged a snow shelter and made a lean-to with a tarp and dug snow caves for the dogs and we holed up to wait until the worst of the cold had passed.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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"It's rigging the game to win rather than playing by the rules," said Koneschusky, the former Senate aide.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
With its tar-soaked rigging, creaking oak deck and 50 spruce oars, Draken Harald Harfagre is the largest modern replica of a Viking ship.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Fairley’s lawyer has declined to comment on the college-basketball rigging accusations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said there was no overlap between the D.A.’s election rigging case and the bribery case against Galvan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2026
Mackenzie sat at a table, puffing peacefully on a pipe, and working at the minute, intricate rigging of a model schooner, while his wife read Three Men in a Boat aloud to him.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
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