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Discover Ludwig"tractor beam" is a common phrase in written English, typically used to describe an imagined or fictional device used to draw objects into a spacecraft.
For example, "The crew activated the ship's tractor beam to bring the asteroid into the cargo bay."
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tractor beam
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A device-generated beam used to attract other objects from a distance.
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The immediate applications of the Dundee tractor beam are medical.
Professors develop a real-life "Star Trek" tractor beam.
A tractor beam came down from his spaceship and sucked up one of the creatures.
Laser physicists have built a reversible tractor beam and are using it to retrieve tiny particles.
Beach House makes insular, woozy, viscous dream-pop that's like being caught in a tractor beam.
ONE of the most useful pieces of equipment in science fiction is the tractor beam.
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When I mention this to Jack O'Connell he fixes me, right on cue, with an extraordinary, tractor-beam stare.
In contrast, Crocker praised Washington's acting, writing, "He's immense: centering every scene with tractor-beam charisma, that dangerous, easy charm hovering between a luxury smile or blazing violence".
Ultimately, "Psychogeography" is most profound when Self and Steadman turn away from the Empty Quarters and, instead, reflect on the tractor-beam pull familiar places exert.
At the very last moment, the Material Defender is rescued via a tractor beam by an organization known as the Red Acropolis Research Team.
Clinton, her smile shrinking, stood perfectly still, as if held in a tractor beam or tractor Bern.
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