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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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By demonstrating his floating contraption - part surfboard, part kayak and part sailboard - Halfon hopes to create a tide of attention.
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Early cameras were large and expensive contraptions.
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It's a contraption for washing windows on tall buildings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above all, why were these chaps messing around with helium-filled contraptions, in an age of routine rocketry?
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He must negotiate puzzles, spring boards, buttons and other contraptions laying in his path.
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No one place in the contraption governs walking.
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Seven of us squeezed into this contraption , which wheezed along at about ten miles an hour, coughing blue fumes.
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Show him you are sensitive to his needs with a gift certificate to that utopia of contraptions, Sharper Image.
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The lave net was a simple but very effective contraption for catching salmon.
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The steam engine is an unthinkable contraption without the domesticating loop of the revolving governor.