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Recent Examples of tractor
But it could also be integrated into a slightly wider ebike motor unit as a one-piece variable speed drive unit, or stuck into a wind turbine generator, or a car, truck, tractor, snowmobile, industrial machine, whatever.
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New Atlas, 5 Dec. 2024
What’s shocking is the vulnerability that the actor shows you as he gets pulled into a relationship destined to destroy him as if guided by a tractor beam.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
But their happy homecoming was tempered by the town’s shocking appearance: businesses boarded up, cars and tractors stripped of parts, houses burned to the ground.
—Jake Whitney, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
Dedicated segment revenue fell to $75.0 million, driven by reductions in fleet size and revenue per tractor.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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New Atlas, 5 Dec. 2024
What’s shocking is the vulnerability that the actor shows you as he gets pulled into a relationship destined to destroy him as if guided by a tractor beam.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
But their happy homecoming was tempered by the town’s shocking appearance: businesses boarded up, cars and tractors stripped of parts, houses burned to the ground.
—Jake Whitney, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
Dedicated segment revenue fell to $75.0 million, driven by reductions in fleet size and revenue per tractor.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tractor
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As for its power source, the aircraft gets its juice from a fuel cell, which produces electricity by combining hydrogen and oxygen, leaving only water as a byproduct.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
10 Jan. 2025
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Passengers exited the Boeing 757-300 aircraft through emergency slides and ground transportation was used to take them from the tarmac back to the terminal.—
Clara McMichael,
ABC News,
10 Jan. 2025
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Alongside the post, the Civil Guard shared a video of Civil Guard members getting into a helicopter and flying to the resort.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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Image Image Los Angeles is one of the more challenging parts of the country for flying helicopters.—
Thomas Fuller,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Boeing’s gross orders for the year stood at 569, while net orders were 377 airplanes — 317 including accounting adjustments.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
14 Jan. 2025
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For reference, commercial airplanes are allowed to have 1,000 feet of stack between them when flying below 29,000 feet, and must have 2,000 feet of stack between them when above 29,000 feet.—
Kristin Jenny,
Outside Online,
13 Jan. 2025
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That said, this first scene explains that passage (either in or out) across the Barrier is nigh impossible without access codes or a 'key' that's built into the ships used by Old Republic emissaries.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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Inbound ship convoys from Europe were told to keep an eye out.—
David Wolman,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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Jorgensen explained that there are gaps in the data, which becomes more complete the closer the plane is to take off.—
Caitlin Chandler,
WIRED,
13 Jan. 2025
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Crews are waiting for the Federal Aviation Administration to give the OK to send the plane back in the air.—
Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
13 Jan. 2025
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To put that into perspective, the Hindenburg airship, infamous for being filled with hydrogen before its catastrophic demise, was filled with roughly 18 metric tons of hydrogen.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
27 Dec. 2024
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Our next stop was the 30-foot plaster bas-relief The Spirit of Transportation, which depicts modes of transit beginning on the far left with oxen pulling a Conestoga wagon and culminating on the right with a child holding an airship—the future in 1895 when it was carved.—
Pat Tompkins,
AFAR Media,
12 Dec. 2024
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The drone is the ostensible replacement for the Mavic 3 Enterprise and features a similar backpack-friendly foldable airframe.—
Jim Fisher,
PCMAG,
8 Jan. 2025
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The great warplane evacuation may have saved valuable airframes from destruction in the recent drone bombardment.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
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Nic Lynn, Neptune Aviation’s vice president of operations, said three of the company's air tankers are in use in Southern California.—
Terry Dickerson,
NBC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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The shadow fleet is made up of hundreds of aging tankers of uncertain ownership and safety practices that are dodging sanctions and keeping the oil revenue flowing to Moscow, and is a cause of concern for European countries.—
Lorne Cook and Vanessa Gera,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Tractor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tractor. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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