conveyor
Americannoun
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a person or thing that conveys
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short for conveyor belt
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Origin of conveyor
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Large cracks were on walls, and the airport’s check-in areas and its baggage conveyor belt were covered with bricks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
“Until you have stronger economic growth and are less constrained by debt, it’s highly likely the conveyor belt of PMs will continue.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Crew members operating trucks with claws pick up the materials in batches and deposit them on conveyor belts to start the sorting process.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Like Rangnick, Kleitsch had been an instrumental figure in the shift to zonal marking, and he was also credited with making Stuttgart into a conveyor belt of world-class youth talent.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
There was a milk-bottling plant, and I watched the rows of milk bottles move relentlessly along a conveyor belt and tried to make a big deal of that.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
Murphy Road Recycling’s material recovery facility in Berlin, Conn., uses a largely unmanned system of conveyors, magnets, optical sorters and pneumatic blocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 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 open water of the rapidly warming sea laps up against old coal mining conveyors.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 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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