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The shape of OXCART was unprece-dented, with its wide, disk-like fuselage designed to carry vast quantities of fuel.
The Road to Area 51: After Decades of Denyial, Five Former Insiders Speak Out | Impact Lab 2010
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However, most luminous stars in the galaxy are in the disk-like galactic plane, so it might be reasonable to expect that most planetary systems lie in that disk rather than the halo or bulge.
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Now workers are placing disk-like sensors on the ground next to more than 5,000 metered parking spaces — about one-fifth of the total — which will detect whether a car is there.
New Meters Aim to Cure Parking Headaches Ben Worthen 2011
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Nods from Coffin and Hardy; a given because of the disk-like shape.
Deception Plan Patrick A. Davis 2006
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It seems RWs from dead trees can come from disk-like sections.
"Modern Sample Bias", RCS and Briffa's "Adjustment" « Climate Audit 2005
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And under X-ray and ultrasound guidance, you guide it into the right side of the heart, across the hole then pull it back, and a disk-like structure closes this side of the hole.
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Hosressachu screamed hideously as the coil sliced him into a dozen disk-like sections, blood spurting violently from around each loop of the coil.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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Hosressachu screamed hideously as the coil sliced him into a dozen disk-like sections, blood spurting violently from around each loop of the coil.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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The sound O is made at the front mouth -- the locality the most openly in sight of any at which Sound is produced -- by rounding the lips into an irregularly-circular, face-like, or disk-like presentation.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Powder residue in the gun was especially troublesome, and a disk-like tool (fig. 44) was designed to scrape the bore.
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy
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