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wheel

[hweel, weel] / ʰwil, wil /




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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

“It feels like we’re moving on a different timeline than the rest of Hawaii,” he said behind the wheel.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Gilles Villeneuve's left rear wheel is barely hanging on to his Ferrari after he spun out of the lead in 1979 because of a punctured tyre.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

All book adaptations, whether from novels or memoirs, could stand to embellish the facts here and there, or go ahead and reinvent the wheel when possible.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

She sat at the spinning wheel, spinning from the fleece we were working on together.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Yet many drivers can’t afford to hold out, because they need wheels for work and life.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

Civilians and soldiers, sat behind the wheels of the vehicles, lined up, waiting for the pumps to reopen.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

DUP leader Gavin Robinson previously said if Sinn Féin was worried about the wheels coming off it "should tighten its nuts".

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Where Mona believed any outfit could benefit from a splash of animal print and kitten heels, I found fashion inspiration from behind the wheels of oversize red shopping carts.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

Bracing for the grinding sound again, I ask my wheels to move to the side.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

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

Dexmate, based in the Bay Area, is developing robots that travel on wheeled bases and have long arms that can reach items on warehouse racks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

On the Afghan side of the Torkham border crossing, children and adults wheeled their luggage or carried belongings atop their heads, as they moved from desk to desk to log their arrival.

From Barron's Jul. 3, 2026

Horses were important because they also pulled the big guns, the ammunition wagons, and the wheeled field kitchens that cooked on the march.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

No 10: Full Confidence is not the only game based around Westminster's wheeling and dealing.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

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

Even raising his eyebrows was difficult, for his forehead was stiff with dried clay And he was so exhausted that he could hardly bear the thought of wheeling the now-heavy cart back to Min’s house.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park




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