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sprockets

  • plural
    of sprocket.
    sprocket

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“There’s still loops and sprockets but it is different.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

May 2: Tesla stockholders are dismayed when CEO Elon Musk announces he is changing his name to Spacely and that his company will stop manufacturing electric cars in favor of sprockets.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2021

The former stained-glass factory in Haarlem’s old town, lovingly repurposed into an art studio by Collado’s father-in-law, houses an unconventional mélange of sprockets and easels, grinders and paint brushes.

From The Verge ● Sep. 23, 2020

Her eyelashes are bicycle sprockets, and her body is an old barrel.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2014

When I squinted my eyes, the people all blurred like a film that has jumped the sprockets and is racing untended through the machine.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

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