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stanchion

[stan-shuhn] / ˈstæn ʃən /


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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

Kuzma also checked out with 8:54 left in the third quarter after running into the stanchion and hearing what he described as a “pop” feeling in his lungs.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2023

A pair of triangular-shaped scoreboards hang over where a basketball stanchion stands.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2022

But on a snowy night in the early 1980s, a car skidded into a stanchion, which hit him in the back.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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