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Recent Examples of crossbeamThe unusual event also sent an HVAC unit hurtling out of the top of a building, and caused skylights to break and wood crossbeams to snap.—Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023 Victims then were affixed to the crossbeam and raised onto the upright beam, which was generally set in a permanent place for subsequent executions.—Fredrick Kunkle, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023 Two crossbeam poles lift the roofline enough for a six-foot tester to stand up, and tilt the sidewalls outward, yielding enough elbow room to keep three men comfortable without any turf wars.—Ryan Stuart, Outside Online, 27 May 2022 To create a transition from the lower pylons to the pylon head, crews will construct a crossbeam to connect the lower legs as a unified structure.—Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2022 See all Example Sentences for crossbeam
At relativistic speeds — that is near the speed of light — time moves more slowly, which would mean the electron beam wouldn't have enough time to spread out, keeping the beam focused.
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Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
22 Jan. 2025
At that moment, a bright white beam of sunlight came in through the porthole and struck Audrey’s left eye.
Railway builders erect a box girder at the site of the standard project in front of the Huning section of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hefei high-speed railway in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, on January 10, 2025.
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Anniek Bao,Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
17 Jan. 2025
Fire investigators estimated that the fire under the bridge reached at least 2,000 degrees when the steel girders began to melt.
Companies with greater gender diversity on their boards see an increase in innovation and patents.
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Elena Volotovskaya,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
The report said that of the firms that provided information about the racial and ethnic composition of their boards, 25 firms or 29% of the sample, reported having zero Black board members.
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