conveyor
Americannoun
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a person or thing that conveys
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short for conveyor belt
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In late 2022, the company unveiled a smaller-format restaurant outside Fort Worth, Texas, designed around customers ordering ahead through an app and collecting their food from a conveyor system.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Take the labor market — traditionally a chief conveyor of high inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
“It’s a conveyor belt of material,” said “Jeopardy!” executive producer Michael Davies, citing the 25,000-plus clues that aired across the franchise last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
I, too, couldn’t shake the thought of a meat factory and almost instantly, realized I wanted off the conveyor belt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Irene lays her gloved hand on the side of the bin to prevent its slide out of her life and onto the conveyor belt.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
Otherwise, the system of conveyors, magnets, optical sorters and pneumatic blocks runs largely unmanned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
Phil became what few others in the arts or entertainment remain — conveyors of authentically good news.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025
Once the pages are printed, they are trucked to a nearby bindery and fed into a whirring machine of conveyors, choppers and hot glue.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2024
The investment will be used to support new conveyors, tooling and equipment in the body and general assembly areas of the plant that manufactures GM's Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 trucks.
From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2023
Shifts might come and go, one lupus-coloured face give place to another; majestically and for ever the conveyors crept forward with their load of future men and women.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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