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stilt

noun

Definition of stilt

as in stand

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Recent Examples of stilt These homes are typically built on stilts or made of concrete block. — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 7 June 2026 Think shows that include Argentine cowboys known as gauchos, Brazilian samba dancers, West African (Moko Jumbie) stilt walkers. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 6 June 2026 Free There will be live entertainment, DJs, food trucks, drag queens, roaming entertainers (jugglers, stilt walkers), games, kids’ activities and more. — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 5 June 2026 The Jakarta Globe reported that the explosion occurred below a stilt house located near the shoreline on Biak town's Walter Mongonsidi Street. — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for stilt

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Noun

Like the one damaged at the Pentagon, the globe is displayed on a floor stand.

— Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026
In 2023, a brain-spine interface reportedly helped a man with a chronic spinal cord injury stand, walk, and climb stairs.

— Mike McRae October 21, New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of stand

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On Wednesday, Intel announced that crews have installed the first major structural truss in Ohio, which means the next part of the construction has finally begun.

— Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
The primary goal of STS-112 was to deliver the 28,000-pound S1 truss to the station so it could be attached to the right side of the station's central S0 truss, the core of its 360-foot (110-meter) truss backbone.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of truss

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Such great and grand groups have been wasted in lesser series, but each talented actor gets to strut their stuff without disrupting the story or getting short-changed.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026
Suspension is taken care of by 43-mm upside-down forks with adjustable rebound and compression damping, and an adjustable central spring strut at the rear.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2026

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As for the people who still want to knock rock and roll down a peg and claim the Nobel Prize made a grave error in judgement with their 2016 winner, well, Riley has just one thing to say.

— Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026
Schedules shift, events intervene; the peg—the occasion to publish—gets pushed out.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2026

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