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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Example Sentences
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This includes an extensive £912,000 program to repair structural defects to Kensington Palace, including to strengthen load-bearing portico columns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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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