girder

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Recent Examples of girder Last steel girder hoisted into place China Railway Group and China Railway Baoqiao are celebrating the completion of the main structure of Huajiang Gorge Bridge. Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2025 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. Anniek Bao,evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025 Travel over this bridge has been disrupted since April, when state and federal transportation inspectors found problems, including a crack through a steel girder near the middle of the bridge. Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2024 Its period-appropriate appearance is enhanced by the spoked wheels, 23-inch front and 19-inch rear, as well as the handcrafted girder fork. New Atlas, 29 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for girder
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Noun
  • In a photo at the end of the reel, Shea stands in a pink shirt while Loubet, in a tuxedo, beams beside him.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • Once the creatures were warmed back up, the parts of the ice layer that had not been exposed to the beam sublimated away, and the pattern was preserved on the tardigrade's surface, even after the creatures were rehydrated.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The gel’s special formula is designed to remove stubborn residue while still being gentle on the stylus and not compromising the bond between the stylus and its cantilever.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • My only prompt was that the overall form of Marcel Breuer’s cantilever couldn’t be altered.
    Mark Holgate, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Santa Cruz says seven billionaires are already on board.
    Kathryn Romeyn, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The Trump administration is simultaneously planning another meeting between Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Russia to get Moscow on board with the framework, the source said.
    Ross Adkin, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Lift the arch of your feet upwards without curling your toes or moving your heels.
    Tim Petrie, DPT, Verywell Health, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Some might offer better support than others or have a more natural resting spot for thumbs, but to greater or lesser extents, a good mouse is sculpted to fit the arch of the typical human hand.
    Matt Kamen, Wired News, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The kindergarten playground, weathered from decades of brutal winters, had turned hazardous; at times, sharp screws protruded from some of the equipment, and kids routinely got splinters from the wooden crossbeams.
    Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The subcommittee's review also noted that the crossbeam and noose weren't added to the wood base until the 1 p.m. hour — the same hour when the riotous mob began attacking police officers and advancing toward and beyond the police line.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Ayers and McClain are working to install a mounting bracket to prepare another new set of solar panels to be installed at the space station.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 2 May 2025
  • On the other side of the bracket, Tottenham Hotspur took care of business in north London, beating Norway’s Bodo/Glimt 3-1.
    Elias Burke, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Unlike shrub roses, these plants require some extra support from trellises, fences, or arbors.
    Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Amazon has an arbor set that comes with artificial white flowers and drapery to put over the arch.
    Christopher Murray, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Joe Mathews writes the Connecting California column for Zócalo Public Square.
    Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The mosaics date from that time, and the interior also boasts Classical columns plundered from other buildings, although it’s encased in a Neoclassical facade built in the 1700s.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Girder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girder. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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