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- noun Plural form of
wheelhouse .
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Examples
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Beneath a flurry of worn metaphors--"shackles," "stalled trains," and "wheelhouses"--these candidates claim to possess the mother's milk necessary to nourish the anemic economy.
Mark Cassello: 4000 Babies: GOP Fecundity and the 2012 Election Mark Cassello 2011
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Beneath a flurry of worn metaphors--"shackles," "stalled trains," and "wheelhouses"--these candidates claim to possess the mother's milk necessary to nourish the anemic economy.
Mark Cassello: 4000 Babies: GOP Fecundity and the 2012 Election Mark Cassello 2011
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Beneath a flurry of worn metaphors--"shackles," "stalled trains," and "wheelhouses"--these candidates claim to possess the mother's milk necessary to nourish the anemic economy.
Mark Cassello: 4000 Babies: GOP Fecundity and the 2012 Election Mark Cassello 2011
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Beneath a flurry of worn metaphors--"shackles," "stalled trains," and "wheelhouses"--these candidates claim to possess the mother's milk necessary to nourish the anemic economy.
Mark Cassello: 4000 Babies: GOP Fecundity and the 2012 Election Mark Cassello 2011
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Not because of what he's saying or doing specifically, because the characters are different and our wheelhouses are different.
Brad Balfour: Q & A: Versatile Actor Craig Bierko Bets On A Revived Guys And Dolls 2010
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Sig and Andy were laughing in their wheelhouses as they rode the waves like a rollercoaster.
'Deadliest Catch' recap: An emotional goodbye to Capt. Phil Harris | EW.com 2010
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Not because of what he's saying or doing specifically, because the characters are different and our wheelhouses are different.
Brad Balfour: Q & A: Versatile Actor Craig Bierko Bets On A Revived Guys And Dolls 2009
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Of all the inappropriate times to do so, I chose several of the brief occasions I spent sheltering behind cabins and wheelhouses to think about Belinda and Maggie.
Puppet on a Chain MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1969
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Five seconds and they were in view, not running, but walking deliberately and peering into the moon-shadows cast by the wheelhouses and cabins of the barges, which was a very foolhardy or just simply foolish thing to do because I was in the deepest shadow I could find while they, by contrast, were almost brutally exposed by the light of the half-moon and I saw them long before they ever saw me.
Puppet on a Chain MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1969
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They were prosaic, snub-nosed-looking little craft, short and squat, with high, upstanding bows, prominent wheelhouses, and stumpy mizzen-masts abaft all.
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