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I would like academic writing to become more integrated, not outsourced to market forces or bolted on as a response to last-minute deadlines.
"Black" and "Asian" identities are just as badly bolted together as anything else.
As the cell door was locked and bolted , the boy behind it had found everything he'd wanted least.
He said police first photographed him for a biometrics database, took him down a long cinderblock hallway on a second floor, and handcuffed him to a bench bolted to the floor.
And I had left my flute in the hotel room … Realising loaves, fishes and loose change wasn't going to stretch so far, we did the sensible, if cowardly, thing and bolted.
The assembly was carried on a pair of steel cross-members, which were bolted to the monocoque underbody by means of four large rubberised mounting pads.
These are then cut to fit in computer-guided mills before being shipped to the building site, dropped into place by crane and bolted together.Mass timber can be designed to exceed the strength of reinforced concrete and generally resists fire well, charring at its surface instead of catching fire like the planks used in most American homes.
Admittedly, he is a little keen on making bad jokes, and his speculative conclusion (in which he suggests that humans could adapt themselves genetically to live on alien worlds) seems bolted on.
The industry's ability to design and verify something with the complexity of 100m interconnected transistors has not kept pace with its ability to manufacture it.Most contemporary chips are composed of multiple blocks of lesser complexity, proved in a previous generation, but bolted together like Lego pieces during the design stage to make a new layout.
AIG did not allow for the risk that the insurer would have to post more collateral against credit-default swaps if these fell in value or its rating was cut.Now that the horse has bolted , financial firms are rushing to close the door, for instance by adding to liquidity buffers (see chart 4).
He says that because the CEV must be compatible with other components of the vision, the contracts give details of how NASA is planning to explore the moon and Mars.According to Mr Sietzen, the new moonships will have three components that will be launched separately and then bolted together in orbit unlike NASA's previous moon rocket, the Saturn 5, in which everything went up at once.
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The primary grammatical function of "bolted" is as the past participle of the verb "bolt." It's used to describe a completed action, either in passive constructions (e.g., "The door was bolted") or in perfect tenses (e.g., "The shareholders have bolted"). Ludwig confirms its correct usage.
Expression frequency: Very common
