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Examples of rig in a Sentence
Jeff Hemmel, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2024
The requirement is for all new rigs after 2030 to be electrified completely from the start, while new development ahead of that must be designed to run on electricity.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
The former includes two DirectX 12 gaming simulations from UL's 3DMark, Night Raid (more modest, suitable for systems with integrated graphics) and Time Spy (more demanding, suitable for gaming rigs with discrete GPUs).
—PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
The footage shows light traffic on the bridge, including a tractor-trailer rig.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2024
Cardo performed at the opening night, showing more love to the brand with the variety of flavors on his DJ rig and plenty of hits to keep the crowd dancing.
—James Dinh, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2024
The rig has an MSI X570 motherboard and an AMD Ryzen CPU, 16GB of Corsair Dominator DDR4 memory clocked to 3,600MHz, and a discrete Nvidia GeForce graphics card.
—PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024
This rig looks tasty to just about anything under the surface.
—David A. Rose, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2024
That word — rig — suggesting there was something illicit, fishy or not entirely kosher about this week’s California primary, wasn’t just groundless and self-serving.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
But multiple far-right activist groups with ties to former president Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee are mobilizing their supporters in earnest, drawing on one baseline belief: Elections in the US are rigged, and citizens need to do something about it.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 8 Apr. 2024
At a San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors meeting last week, people rose for public comment to voice concerns about the March 5 primary election, alleging that Hale was rigging votes to help someone who attends her church get elected to the Stockton City Council.
—Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
On one balcony, there are blush pink grow lights, the remains of a marijuana-cultivation experiment; on the other, there’s a retro weight lifting rig, with a leather punching bag and black iron barbells.
—Kurt Soller Ricardo Labougle, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
The latest development comes days after Khan wrote a letter to the IMF urging it to link any talks with Islamabad to an audit of the recent elections, which his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party says were rigged.
—Munir Ahmed, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
The 2020 election was rigged — stolen from President Trump by Biden and the Democrats.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Mar. 2024
In fact, Thompson is convinced the entire nominating fight was rigged in Clinton’s favor and Sanders only yielded because he and his wife, Jane, were threatened.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
First, Russian election-style events are routinely rigged.
—Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Verb (1)
probably back-formation from rigging
Verb (2)
rig, noun, a swindle
Verb (1)
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun
1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb (2)
1851, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Rig.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rig. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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rig
1 of 3 verbrig
2 of 3 nounrig
3 of 3 verbVerb
Middle English riggen "to fit out a ship with rigging"
Verb
from earlier rig (noun) "a cheating trick," of unknown origin
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