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[rim] / rɪm /


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Eventually, the robot gripped the glass by the rim, maneuvered it into place and threw its hands in the air in triumph.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Thiero started the summer moving too quickly through games, crashing into the lane and flying recklessly toward the rim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Schmitt’s theory, though, couldn’t even hit the rim: It turned out that Smith had not attended the Hawks game in question.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

The new wheel is better in both respects; however, the upper rim still partially blocks the display.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Aunt Maud’s black-gloved hand clutched the coffin rim and she shook her veils at the corpse.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Water gathered in low-lying valleys and river channels, overflowed crater rims, and rushed through canyons.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025

Four times a year, America’s publicly traded companies line up for a dunk contest on lowered rims called earnings season.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

Its wheels’ gold rims, capped with smiley faces, are emblazoned with the platitude “Where Dreams Are Made,” while the whole thing is ornamented with piped-icing filigree.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

Combs would regularly bring "random women" there to party, turning up with an entourage of dozens of people in "three white jeeps, with white rims and white leather seats", they say.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025

Two of the boys wore glasses, curiously enough the same kind: tiny, old-fashioned, with round steel rims.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Heat the oven to 400°F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Except for one picked cuticle on a fingernail, which was ever so slightly rimmed with blood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

He wore a black t-shirt, dark trousers and black rimmed glasses as he entered his pleas.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2025

An oval abrasion on a French bulldog’s ear was rimmed by crusty discharge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024

Her clothes seem like real dusty leather, worn and creased for years and years with a rimmed hat and boots for ignoring mud.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

Beyond the museum, the grassy hills rimming the building will also be expanded and extended because Angelenos—children and adults—have a beloved tradition of rolling down them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

We were alone but for several thousand flamingos rimming the edge of a quarter of the deep lake in a pink arc.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

Beside her, Ryder, gray hairs rimming his eyes, cropped grass on the lawn of his new home, untethered and, without a fence around him, free.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022

Sand and gravel deposits can be found along 2,000 miles of Lake Bonneville’s ancient shorelines rimming the valleys of northern Utah, says John Macfarlane, a neurosurgeon on Moench’s board.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 11, 2020

The trees rimming the outfield were flaunting their colors.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli


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