Lined with sensing devices, the anonymous carbon fiber blades are vibrated back and forth.

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It whirred and vibrated and jumped all over the table, but it did its job well.

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The air conditioning hummed and vibrated so loudly that I thought an A380 was landing on the roof.

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He was instantly relieved to hear the first ring of the phone, an old rotary that vibrated with the vigor of the Mechanical Age.

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The floor vibrated with drumbeats as we bowed again.

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The blades are vibrated from side to side, as well as up and down (edge fatigue and flap fatigue) for millions of cycles, simulating twenty years of activity in the real world.

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First of all, every commuter rail system has full time maintenance crews, and they always have plenty of work: changing lightbulbs in the tube, fixing a signal that got bumped, replacing an on-track communication cable that was vibrated out of place and smashed, etc.

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The bubble-heads have set up 35 labs where they woo prospects with demonstrations of packages being dropped on concrete floors, vibrated as if they were on the back of a truck driving over cobblestones or placed in vacuum chambers to see how the bubbles respond to altitude.

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