shear

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That’s commonly near the center of the office floor, far from windows and close to permanent shear walls that limit sound intrusion.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

“You can shear a sheep for life, but you can only slaughter it once” goes an old saying that sportsbooks seem to have heeded.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

"In order to better predict the hazard potential of volcanoes, we need to update our volcano models and take shear forces in conduits into account," says Bachmann.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2025

In a recent paper in Science, the researchers report that gas bubbles can also appear in rising magma due to shear forces, not only from pressure drops.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2025

He knew how to shear them, and how to slaughter them.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho