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
The bears lived in a treehouse surrounded by innovative systems of rigs and pulleys.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2025
The children watch engineers use pulleys to lift a fossilized dinosaur femur.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
