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At a busy intersection, “Small nimble vehicles, Fiats and VW Bugs, skimmed the periphery of the traffic, then seemed to be flung off centrifugally, almost gleefully, in some random direction.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2022

After beef blood has been centrifugally subdivided and left in metal test tubes awhile, its smell could level a city.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020

Landing gear for bombers is also centrifugally cast by Ford.

From Time Magazine Archive

Founded in 1945, L.A.SLEEVE CO. has been producing centrifugally spun-cast chrome-moly iron alloy cylinder sleeves for watercraft, motorcycle, snowmobile, ATV, marine, and automotive markets.

From Time Magazine Archive

That the central glands, if irritated, send centrifugally some influence to the exterior glands, causing them to send back a centripetal influence inducing aggregation, is perhaps the most interesting fact given in this chapter.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles