truss
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It is to his credit that the cathedral is not a simulacrum or facsimile, but a Gothic building, in all its structural reality, even the invisible oak roof truss above the vaults.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
Absent those images, watching Lois debone, stuff and truss up a turducken would be mouthwatering.
From Salon • Oct. 4, 2024
For the longest vase-life, cut blooms when three-quarters of the truss is open.
From Seattle Times • May 4, 2024
It hangs upstairs at the Broad museum, displayed along with Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy and a nifty diagram for a ruptured hernia truss.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023
She blushed, she dropped the removed truss, she stepped back on a stack of irrigation basins—and her feet went out from under her.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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