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wind tunnel

[wind] / wɪnd /
NOUN
testing structure
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That geography turns the valley into a natural wind tunnel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2026

The wind tunnel model she works on replicates track conditions, testing a scale model of a car in a wind tunnel to determine its performance in different environments.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

Now that we’re through the wind tunnel of adolescence, I’m happy to share them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

He also created a tiny wind tunnel for some of the experiments, so that the physicists could analyze the role of ambient breeze in the worm's target success rate.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025

Phorcys’s mouth stretched into that wind tunnel smile.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan



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