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Recent Examples of cantilever
In structural terms, a cantilever is a beam or slab anchored at only one end, allowing for horizontal overhangs that appear to float.
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Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Oct. 2025
Could the tower cantilever entirely over the corner housing the new church?
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
An architectural marvel, the Link is the world’s longest cantilever, floating between two towers like a futuristic sky bridge.
—Natasha Amar, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
What's left is a silicon dioxide cantilever with a thin metal layer on top.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Apr. 2019
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Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Oct. 2025
Could the tower cantilever entirely over the corner housing the new church?
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
An architectural marvel, the Link is the world’s longest cantilever, floating between two towers like a futuristic sky bridge.
—Natasha Amar, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
What's left is a silicon dioxide cantilever with a thin metal layer on top.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Apr. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cantilever
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No Route 66 road trip is complete without a stop at the First Original McDonald’s Museum in San Bernardino, California, a veritable shrine to the golden arches.—
Zoey Goto,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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Ganzorigt opts for heart decals made with OPI’s Big Apple Red to line the tip of the nail for the top arch and a glazed donut base.—
Audrey Noble,
Vogue,
8 Mar. 2026
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Downtown Kansas City drivers should expect major delays when a key highway faces partial closures for bridge girder installation on back-to-back weekends.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
4 Feb. 2026
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Instead of the springer or girder front suspension and semi-hard-tail frame of the original, the Chief Vintage uses modern but stylized front forks and discreet twin rear shocks that mimic the unsprung frame of the post-war bikes.—
William Roberson,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Monday, March 9 Vote for Cincinnati's Favorite Beer Beers from 32 local breweries go head-to-head on a March Madness-style bracket.—
Caroline Ritzie,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
8 Mar. 2026
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Any effort to create new brackets, levy a local income tax surcharge, or adjust who pays what requires state approval.—
Tiffany Caban,
New York Daily News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Some questions may be adapted into full columns, and transcripts of the chats remain available after each session concludes.—
Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
27 Mar. 2026
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Judith Martin's Miss Manners column has chronicled the continuous rise and fall of American manners since 1978.—
Judith Martin,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Mar. 2026
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Wiedenfeld says that birdbaths don’t have to be a saucer on a pedestal.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
11 Mar. 2026
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On Soho's Carnaby Street, an NFL pop-up shop sells blue-and-gold London Games jerseys and bomber jackets, while the New Era baseball cap shop has Jaguars and Rams hats on pedestals in the window.—
Toby Skinner,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Cantilever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cantilever. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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