The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Nepal’s Tourism Board on Saturday shared on its Facebook page a list of equipment requested by the local authorities in Rasuwa district, including body bags, pulleys and personal protective equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
His trips also revealed ornate loom pulleys and pottery, challenging stereotypes that African art is "limited to masks and figures", Oberhofer added.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
The workers check and replace the large plastic bulbs on the long strings of lights and then use pulleys and hoists to hang and sometimes muscle those long strands of faceted lights onto the branches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
He writes his great-grandfather's "technical diagrams of ramps and pulleys suggest that he was also a trained engineer who couldn't resist a project".
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
Then, using a system of ropes and pulleys hung from the rafters, we hauled Dragonwings onto the wagon bed.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
