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To manage this risk, the Ingenuity team strictly capped rotational speeds at 2,700 rpm and maintained a safety buffer to avoid the unpredictable physics of the sound barrier and potential turbulence from Martian dust devils.—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026 There’s a sprawling cattle ranch nearby, and a dust devil moves in the distance.—Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 6 May 2026 All that has shaped him — people, cultures, histories, dust devils, and panoramic desert vistas — is inseparable from his lyrics and his sounds.—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026 Little bursts of dub delay flare without warning, kicking up dust devils; every now and then, the telltale sweep of the pitch-bend wheel flicks upward like a fast-rising tide and then, after a minute or two, falls back into place.—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dust devil