rudder
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A nation without stories is a boat without a rudder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
As you observe their big goofy head navigate toward the stick you threw in the river, you’ll notice their otter tail serving as their rudder as they swim back to you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025
The Villa Vie Odyssey cruise ship was to depart from Northern Ireland last May, but issues with its rudder stocks meant its guests were marooned in the city for more than four months.
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
Mangione’s Twitter/X account is a kaleidoscopic fever dream with no clear ideological rudder.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
The boats which had been tethered one to the other had fouled up by now, the tow line under propeller and rudder and the two hulls bashing and scraping together.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
They have also been developing stronger actuators—machines that pull and push and take the place of pilots’ muscles to move planes’ rudders and other flight-control surfaces in conditions where humans would otherwise have to intervene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Scores of mangled and cracked vessels sit on stacks, gaping holes in their hulls, their rudders snapped off and cabin windows broken.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024
“It's pretty powerful and kind of metaphorical that you see these orcas going after rudders and sort of disabling the technology that human beings use to control marine space.”
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2024
Back in May, the stories from off the Iberian Peninsula of orcas taking apart the rudders and propellers of yachts — and, in a couple of incidents, ramming them — were both alarming and intriguing.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
The vertical rudders allowed the aeroplane to make a level turn to the left or to the right.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
