stanchion
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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
Teammate Aliyah Boston tried to console Clark as she walked to the basket stanchion and tapped her forehead against it before sitting down and covering her head with a towel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
The debris was determined to be part of a stanchion used to mount batteries on a cargo pallet.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2024
He landed near the basket stanchion and immediately began grabbing at his left knee, while teammates reacted in obvious disbelief.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
The ropes were slapping the mast and the boom was tangled in the stanchion ropes.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
Traffic cones have been placed around the crater, and AFP reported that waves pounding the sea front can be seen "lapping in the hole and rushing out again under the stanchions that support the home".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
That means the end of those stainless-steel stanchions with numbers etched into them at the gate, where passengers today line up based on boarding position assigned at check-in and then pick any open seat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
And you're funneled through a labyrinth of retractable stanchions like you’re about to meet a costumed mouse at Magic Kingdom, not a budtender named Jade.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025
“I don’t take him literally,” Ladd said, as he rolled past the steel stanchions reaching into a cobalt-blue sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2025
He observed that my gaze was fixed absently upon the stanchions, and after a time grew tired of waiting, and asked me what I thought of.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
In a time shorter than it takes to tell it, the two doomed men are made fast to the stanchioned chairs; where they sit bolt upright, firm as bollard heads.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
And the compass stanchioned on the bridge had gone along with a wave, stanchions and all.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
The room was high, narrow, and lit by a barred and stanchioned window, far above my reach, even if I had been unbound.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
Such a one stands in the centre, its legs fixed in the floor, with four chairs around it, similarly stanchioned.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
Tom Peel understood his business; he had every door barred and stanchioned, and the windows protected, as well as the means to his hand would allow.
From The O'Ruddy A Romance by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams
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