wheeling

present participle of wheel
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as in rotating
to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis wheeled the bicycle's tires around to see if they were balanced

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as in turning
to change one's course or direction upon hearing the construction workers' suggestive remarks, she wheeled around to glare at them

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Verb
  • Her hull shape and fully electric propulsion system with inline contra rotating propellers is an evolution from the Breathe concept first proposed in 2010.
    Bill Springer, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • This highly efficient system of a centerline propeller and a rotating thruster behind allowed De Voogt’s naval architects to fashion a hull shape with an optimized, upswept after body for less turbulence and a quieter wake.
    Bill Springer, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • The flower’s strong, curving stem makes the work not so much forceful as definitive.
    Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • But by using the holographic dictionary to look at the particles from their other perspective, as a gently curving space-time, physicists can calculate the outcome using Einstein’s gravity equations and then translate the answer back to get a sense of how the nuclei would smash together.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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  • The character took a winding road from being singularly focused on her romance with the Joker to becoming one half of Harlivy.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Titanium With History The energy required to power the watch’s performance indicator is created by winding the aforementioned crank.
    Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Wheeling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wheeling. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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