Definitions
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- adjective consisting completely of metal
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Examples
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He called the all-metal hips a "classic example" of why such monitoring was needed.
NYT > Home Page By BARRY MEIER 2011
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He called the all-metal hips a "classic example" of why such monitoring was needed.
NYT > Home Page By BARRY MEIER 2011
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The market for these all-metal hips has come under pressure due to worries about particles wearing off and causing medical problems.
President of J&J's DePuy Orthopaedics Unit to Leave Jon Kamp 2011
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Once upon a time, designing a safe all-metal monoplane was very "hard".
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The composites' trampoline-like action propels a baseball more forcefully than what all-metal or wood bats of the same weight and size can do.
Ejected From Little League Alan Paul 2011
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Photographs by Todd Eberle This all-metal floating staircase was designed by Chareau to lead from the doctor's office to his private study above.
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"Exhalation" by Ted Chiang, my first exposure to his work, is set on an all-metal world, where the inhabitants breathe argon and go about living otherwise normal lives, the removal of filled and/or dirty lungs withstanding, of course.
Take a breath, then read this story pabba 2009
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If you forget to charge it, just give its all-metal crank a spin.
The Best Junk for Your Trunk Michael Hsu 2011
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It seems that Buckley, soon after matriculating at Yale in 1945, formed a little syndicate of half a dozen students to raise $1,800 for a pretty, all-metal airplane called an Ercoupe.
Americans In the Air Daniel Ford 2011
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The plane†™ s all-metal construction, using the new aluminum allow known as duralumin, provided the strength and structural integrity to lift a remarkable payload of fuel, passengers, and cargo.www. clipperflyingboats.com/pan-am/sikorsky-s42
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