Example Sentences
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Their strong values-based cultures, deep commitment to their communities, and longer-term investment horizons, act like ballasts on a ship — working together to absorb shocks and navigate through treacherous waters.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024
Emotional Support Water Bottles can serve as psychological ballasts.
From Slate • Jan. 18, 2024
PCBs were banned by the EPA in 1979 but still remain in some structures built before then, including in lighting ballasts at Sky Valley before they were replaced.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2022
In addition, the great mixing of species transported across the world in the ballasts of ships opens up new, vulnerable ecosystems to these super-adaptors.
From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2015
Pattie then snapped off the bright fluorescent ballasts.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
