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: a straw-filled tick or mattress
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: a small, hard, or temporary bed
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: a wooden flat-bladed instrument
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: a lever or surface in a timepiece that receives an impulse from the escapement wheel and imparts motion to a balance or pendulum
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: a portable platform for handling, storing, or moving materials and packages (as in warehouses, factories, or vehicles)
Examples of pallet in a Sentence
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Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
The pallet was jettisoned from the space station in 2021 and the load was expected to eventually fully burn up on entry into Earth's atmosphere, but one piece survived.
—CBS News, 16 Apr. 2024
Rosenbaum led a tour of the facilities Monday, taking a group of reporters and cameras from one sterile, shiny, white room to another, each with several giant printer-like machines, moving around tiny pallets with dozens of samples, as technicians in white lab coats supervised.
—Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
In March 2021, NASA announced that an external pallet of batteries had been released from the International Space Station 260 miles above Earth.
—Megan Myers, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2024
Humanitarian aid is loaded onto pallets to be shipped to Gaza at a warehouse near Larnaca, Cyprus, on Wednesday.
—Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2024
The space features a light color pallet of blond wood, durable stones, and marble.
—David Morris, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2024
Some guns were found hidden in wooden pallets disguised as humanitarian aid.
—Guad Venegas, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2024
To prevent Gazans from getting on board — a prospect that aid workers fear would invite Israeli military action — the group has suggested that the the ship could tow a barge loaded with food pallets and then push it to shore.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
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But astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, with whom Otero later connected, posted on X last month that the pallet would reenter the atmosphere between March 8 and March 9, almost exactly three years after it was released.
—Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
The pallet was jettisoned from the space station in 2021 and the load was expected to eventually fully burn up on entry into Earth's atmosphere, but one piece survived.
—CBS News, 16 Apr. 2024
Rosenbaum led a tour of the facilities Monday, taking a group of reporters and cameras from one sterile, shiny, white room to another, each with several giant printer-like machines, moving around tiny pallets with dozens of samples, as technicians in white lab coats supervised.
—Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
In March 2021, NASA announced that an external pallet of batteries had been released from the International Space Station 260 miles above Earth.
—Megan Myers, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2024
Humanitarian aid is loaded onto pallets to be shipped to Gaza at a warehouse near Larnaca, Cyprus, on Wednesday.
—Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2024
The space features a light color pallet of blond wood, durable stones, and marble.
—David Morris, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2024
Some guns were found hidden in wooden pallets disguised as humanitarian aid.
—Guad Venegas, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2024
To prevent Gazans from getting on board — a prospect that aid workers fear would invite Israeli military action — the group has suggested that the the ship could tow a barge loaded with food pallets and then push it to shore.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
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“Pallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pallet. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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