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wheel

[hweel, weel] / ʰwil, wil /




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The company also recently received permission to test and deploy its technology on roads in California, albeit with a safety driver behind the wheel.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

Waymo, a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, will in the coming weeks start mapping the city's streets and conducting tests with specialist drivers at the wheel.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

Other items in the auction were Gandhi's notes on God and the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita, his portable spinning wheel and two letters about the spiritual discipline of spinning.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

She had no idea that the young woman at the wheel, an aspiring novelist in Glickfeld’s Seattle writing workshop, would come to disrupt the business entirely.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The wheel felt like a giant eye looming over me.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Contrary to what you learned in civics class, the grease that keeps the wheels of American democracy turning isn’t voters, legislation, or donor cash; it’s staffers.

From Slate Aug. 27, 2026

Running too low through the flat-out final corner, Verstappen's inside wheels caught the wet painted line and he lost the rear, sending him nose first into the outside wall.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

The fund’s positioning became, in effect, one big bet on the AI trade and in July, the wheels came off that bandwagon.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

It rolls on meager-looking 17-inch steel wheels that appear to have been rattle-canned with silver paint.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Anyway, I didn’t have access to wheels or a license.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

If wheeled robots move goods cheaply, reliably and efficiently or robots with just arms can do the other automated tasks, what problem does a humanoid solve?

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

TMZ published photos of someone who appears to be Graham being wheeled outside of his home and into an ambulance.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

Finally, the long-anticipated moment arrived: Firefighters wheeled out a gurney carrying Hernán Alberto Gil Flores — a security guard who survived for more than a week trapped under a mountain of rubble.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 5, 2026

"We're good with the heat, but the humidity is a different beast," he said as he wheeled his rental bicycle along a section of the National Mall crowded with tourists.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

He didn’t take his eyes off Mabel as the horse wheeled and they started off.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

I’m wheeling my bike off it with balletic ease, definitely not annoying my fellow commuters as I lug it down the stairs.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

When the convention was first announced, it sounded like it might be a thrilling opportunity to see real wheeling and dealing on a convention floor from which a nominee would eventually emerge.

From Slate Jul. 25, 2026

On a recent afternoon, volunteers bustled around the museum wheeling carts of jaws and vertebrae carefully organized by species.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

The 33-year-old Norwich midfielder is wheeling his way to the corner flag with almost every member of the squad hunting him down.

From BBC Nov. 18, 2025

Somebody seemed to be wheeling a baby back and forth under my window.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath




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