shear

El Nino has a tendency to increase wind shear in the north Atlantic, a factor which tears apart storms and limits formation.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

El Niño in the Pacific Basin decreases wind shear, so it removes the inhibitive storm-decapitating effect of wind shear at the same time that it amplifies water temperature,” Swain said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The Saririaky massif lies within what geologists call a ductile shear zone.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

In the Pacific, El Nino's effect on the atmosphere leaves little vertical wind shear over the Pacific, creating favorable conditions for hurricanes to intensify.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

In two years he had learned everything about shepherding: he knew how to shear sheep, how to care for pregnant ewes, and how to protect the sheep from wolves.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

Gavin Newsom looks like the rat that Lisa Simpson accidentally shears thinking he’s a baby sheep.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

Then the components are sliced up with hydraulic shears and other equipment and loaded onto heavy-duty trucks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Police recovered a garden edger from Manufactum in one of the storage boxes next to other spades, trowels and garden shears.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

That means buying fresh lobsters from your local market, boiling them and using kitchen shears to slice their shells from head to tail.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024

He held aloft the scrawny red body so raw and naked and cut the cord with kitchen shears and wrapped his son in a towel.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

As of Monday, the closure had sheared 16 million barrels from daily oil supplies, according to JPMorgan Chase analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

It’s a two-story house with the front sheared off so the audience can see all the rooms at once.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025

And so the men counted to three and they pushed, and Plymouth Rock sheared in half.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024

The paper also considers how a sheared flow, which occurs when adjacent particles move at different flow speeds, can impact the pedestal height and width.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

Instead, they pushed me down into that hard wooden chair and held me firmly—as if I were a sheep about to be sheared.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

When the World Cup began 30 days ago, few believed Belgium - shorn of so many of the star names who featured in their previous campaigns on this stage - were among the potential winners.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Spurs are a very poor team, shorn of confidence and self-belief, looking on course for the Championship.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

Viollet-le-Duc’s conception of Gothic architecture, shorn of religious, sentimental and romantic associations, was radically modern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

Mr. Ehnes gave it fresh life in a reflective reading generally shorn of showy gestures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

Mom kept us shorn pretty tight, and Styx had edges so sharp they could cut like razors.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

A farmer has swapped sheep shearing in Dorset for WWE wrestling in the US.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

A backlight sufficient to be useful would disturb the laminar flow of air rushing across the rear decklid, increasing shearing turbulence and drag at the back of the car.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

"They've lost their livelihoods, they've lost their shearing sheds, livestock, just absolutely devastating," he told national broadcaster ABC.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

To that end, the dire wolf was bigger than the grey wolves that existed at the same time, with large, shearing teeth carrying an extremely strong bite force.

From Salon ● May 15, 2025

Feeding and watering and shearing and lambing and even castrating and butchering, I do all these things.

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