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"On the fuselage, everything is done manually, so every hole, every rivet you see on the fuselage is being done manually," Operations Director Victor Ocadiz told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

In a letter addressed to leaders of the Senate, Homendy said the door plug which failed had been opened so rivet repair work could be done in September last year.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024

Deal told employees of another quality lapse found on about 50 fuselages built by Spirit: Two rivet holes on a window frame “may not have been drilled exactly to our requirements,” Deal wrote.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

I want them to live on a healthy planet, and that’s why I’m holding my rivet in.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2023

Here is the rivet of your mistress’s spectacles out.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

Small amounts of iron from parts such as rivets and other fasteners mix into the recycled metal.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026

The pieces are instantly recognizable as hers: hand-laced rivets holding together a bustier in the shape of a broken heart, the way one of her spiked choker handbags seems to defy gravity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024

Tomasina shows us some of the ship’s rivets, chunky metal pins that held its thick steel plates together.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024

The Seattle Times, citing a person familiar with the details, reported last month that personnel opened the panel so that a team of Spirit mechanics in Renton could repair rivets on the door frame.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

For a full minute the tanker passed—so close, he thought, so close he could see the rivets in her hull and the water pumping out of exhaust holes on her side.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen

The break, which happened early Thursday, was on a riveted steel pipe from 1916 that forms the major arteries for water delivery from reservoirs and tanks to smaller distribution mainlines across Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Elle knows this because she studies fashion magazines with the same riveted attention she devotes to preparing for the LSATs, so she can score the 179 she needs to qualify for admission consideration.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026

And the eyes of the world remain riveted to the case - while global sympathies remain with Guthrie's family.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

The 12-foot-tall press punches ribbons of the sheet steel into hardened metal dies that bend and shape the steel into dump-truck beds, frames and other parts that are riveted together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

HUAC's hearings riveted the nation—and ratcheted up J. Edgar Hoover's frustration with the FBI's increasingly fruitless investigation into Elizabeth Bentley's allegations.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

The World Cup was a riveting first chapter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Yes, the most riveting thing about director Thomas Kail’s live-action “Moana” is watching painted cloth dry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

These accounts collide with the present era’s eerie uncertainty at every turn, making for an altogether riveting, cyclical listening experience that tells her life’s story without smoothing its contradictions.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

The campaign was riveting and Hampden was rocking like rarely before.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

“What we really need is something so riveting that even President Snow won’t be able to tear himself away. Got anything like that?” asks Haymitch.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins