pneumatically
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Another, called a McKibben actuator, is pneumatically driven and requires an air compressor to actuate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
At Best Buy Theater on Tuesday, “I Bet” came near the end of Ciara’s show, after more than an hour devoted largely to pneumatically intense dancing and the songs that inspire it.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2015
The “hand down” protocol, put into practice in 1935, allowed journalists sitting in the courtroom when decisions were announced to dispatch copies of those opinions, pneumatically, to their colleagues downstairs in the pressroom.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2015
It runs pneumatically and on electric and these are all wearing out.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2013
It appears that my heart was never really a heart—that is to say, it may have had its affections, its emotions, its passions, but pneumatically it is a failure; it was never a blood-pump.
From Phyllis of Philistia by Moore, Frank Frankfort
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