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wind machine

British  
/ wɪnd /

noun

  1. a machine used, esp in the theatre, to produce wind or the sound of wind

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Where would Eurovision be without a raven-haired woman bellowing into a wind machine set to "hurricane"?

From BBC May 9, 2025

Corteva researchers test the strength of new hybrids by exposing them to gusts of up to 160 kilometers per hour from a wind machine.

From Science Magazine Oct. 25, 2023

That will require a wind machine, he decided, having gotten his first taste at his largest show to date, for 6,000 people in Australia, outdoors, with the actual wind in his face.

From New York Times May 10, 2018

There’s not even a wind machine to change up how her hair is falling.

From Slate Nov. 1, 2017

“Then you have to get some artificial grass so it stays the same color throughout the whole picture, and finally you have to get a wind machine so you can make the grass sway.’

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

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