deflector
Americannoun
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deflectors
plural
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What Donald does, and he's excellent at it, he's the great deflector.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2023
Place shrimp on the cooking grate directly over the heat deflector plate with the lid down.
From Washington Times ● May 28, 2023
The Singaporean-born executive will serve as a deflector for TikTok, taking the heat for the app while touting its popularity and how it serves as a platform for creators and small businesses.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
He is an accomplished résumé padder, an expert with the evasive fallback answer when challenged, a skillful deflector of the awkward question, a quibbler par excellence and just stunningly self-confident.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
So I tell her about Jamie instead, because it’s a good deflector.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
The upper fairing is wider, as is the lower fairing—including gill-like deflectors that can be opened or closed for the rider’s comfort.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Using carefully placed electric fields generated by deflectors, they controlled the incident energies of the charged particles.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023
McLaren's day was afflicted by reliability problems, which saw the team have to reinforce the air deflectors over the front wheels and manage fewer laps than many of their rivals.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023
The last of those have worried Russian military leaders enough that some of the tanks seen massing on the borders are sporting new deflectors, like a metal umbrella, to deceive the missile’s homing systems.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
The crew scurried back behind the blast deflectors and watched the ship through the thick crystal viewports.
From Sabotage in Space by Louis Glanzman
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