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the tensile strength of steel cable
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These blades can withstand the high tensile force that the frame applies to the blade.
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Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
Fullertubes also have a range of optical and tensile properties that the researchers are still exploring.
—James R. Riordon, Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
Her voice, agile and tensile, is the thing that propelled her from a career as a kid on Broadway (in Les Miz and Ragtime) to Spring Awakening and Glee.
—Vulture, 2 Oct. 2022
There, hostile giant insects swarm about, and hungry, tensile vines are forever threatening to drag outsiders beneath the otherwise barren surface.
—Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
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Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
Fullertubes also have a range of optical and tensile properties that the researchers are still exploring.
—James R. Riordon, Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
Her voice, agile and tensile, is the thing that propelled her from a career as a kid on Broadway (in Les Miz and Ragtime) to Spring Awakening and Glee.
—Vulture, 2 Oct. 2022
There, hostile giant insects swarm about, and hungry, tensile vines are forever threatening to drag outsiders beneath the otherwise barren surface.
—Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
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“Tensile.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tensile. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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