stanchion
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He had a ferocious one-handed dunk off a Doncic assist that got Hayes so amped up that he head-butted the basket stanchion in celebration.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025
That’s because it plans to run two lines simultaneously on either side of a new, shorter stanchion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
The debris was determined to be part of a stanchion used to mount batteries on a cargo pallet.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2024
During the first shift of his first NHL game, Ovechkin threw a check on Columbus defenseman Radoslav Suchy that dislodged the stanchion between two pieces of plexiglass.
From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2023
He’d leaned against the fender of Abel Martinson’s truck inspecting the hand he’d scraped that morning against a stanchion on Carl Heine’s gill-netting boat.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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