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With the pyramids the Egyptians created gigantic scientific instruments for measuring the solar year, building their sides trued to the four cardinal directions.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you've had your Banshee cylinder trued and welded, put the crank into the bottom case and rotate the crank using the rods to do so.

From Time Magazine Archive

Straight-edges are sometimes made of cast steel and trued on both edges.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

New balance staff, two balance screws changed, hairspring trued and cleaned.

From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Kleinlein, Walter J.

Such debates didn't suggest any course of social or political action, and couldn't be trued in to any of her causes.

From The Troubadour by Lowndes, Robert Augustine Ward