self-righting
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Lister views this as a way to restore a crucial self-righting mechanism to an ecosystem thrown haywire, an ecosystem where “nothing makes sense” any more.
From The Guardian
That being said, this was an out-of-sorts performance from the Easter Road side that never looked like self-righting after a dreadful start.
From BBC
Ebo is mobile, autonomous, and can live-stream video to your phone It’s mobile, whizzing around on a pair of self-righting wheels, and can entertain your pet under its own steam using a combination of lights, sounds, and a feather on its head.
From The Verge
As a crewman, she experienced the light-dark-light full rollover of a self-righting 47, and came back for more.
From Seattle Times
Like the legions of Surfmen before her, Shafer learned to drive the Coast Guard’s primary rescue steed, a powerful, self-righting, 47-foot lifeboat, the hard way: doing it wrong, debriefing and heading back into the salty maw.
From Seattle Times
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