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Examples
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In 1903 a compressed-air foghorn was installed atop the light.
Loch Traignarry Light Mark Reep 2011
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Barnes started drinking, then smoking pot and then inhaling gas from compressed-air canisters.
'IT CHANGES WHO WE ARE' Christian Davenport 2010
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Barnes started drinking, then smoking pot and then inhaling gas from compressed-air canisters.
Traumatic brain injury leaves an often-invisible, life-altering wound Christian Davenport 2010
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Barnes started drinking, then smoking pot and then inhaling gas from compressed-air canisters.
Traumatic brain injury leaves an often-invisible, life-altering wound Christian Davenport 2010
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Instead, carpool or take public transit to a community fireworks display, and in advance of it, campaign your local event coordinators to use biodegradable sparklers, or the compressed-air fireworks that Disney uses.
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Paradoxically, it celebrates a brilliant array of futuristic inventions and technologies, such as centrally heated streets, cheap, compressed-air balloon travel, houses moved by railway and gas-illuminated safety hats for ladies.
The Royal Society's lost women scientists Richard Holmes 2010
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ReconRobotics has also tested other options, like dropping the robot from a low-flying unmanned aerial vehicle, and launching it from the same kind of compressed-air guns used to fire tear-gas canisters.
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The group uses compressed-air guns — known as airsoft guns, which fire tiny plastic pellets — in the training exercises, and sometimes they shoot real guns on a closed range.
Boy Scouts depict US Iraq vets as terrorists in bizarre paramilitary training for teenage Scouts 2009
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The group uses compressed-air guns — known as airsoft guns, which fire tiny plastic pellets — in the training exercises, and sometimes they shoot real guns on a closed range.
Boy Scouts depict US Iraq vets as terrorists in bizarre paramilitary training for teenage Scouts 2009
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Many of the Subaru plant's early green initiatives delivered quick paybacks and required little effort: dimming assembly-line lights automatically when the workers took breaks, for example, or plugging leaks in compressed-air lines, or recycling more materials.
Greener and Cheaper Alan G. Robinson 2009
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