load-bearing
Americanadjective
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Vocabulary lists containing load-bearing
Structural Engineering
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Engineering - Middle School
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The platform—an early peek at an architecture to be shared among VW AG subsidiaries, including Bentley—has a load-bearing battery structure holding 113 kWh of pouch-style NMC lithium batteries, accounting for 1,365 pounds of overall weight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
As he writes in “Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy,” “Christianity is a load-bearing wall; its failure places dangerous stress on democratic institutions.”
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
Eventually, it became the load-bearing sector of the whole market.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026
"There has been a real trend in recent years towards using raw venues where there are only the load-bearing walls and nothing else," Rod Reynolds, a location scout from the Records Collection company, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
The broad bottom of each pyramid spread the load and reduced settlement; the narrow top supported load-bearing columns.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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