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Recent Examples of assembly-line
This isn’t a labor dispute involving steel workers, auto plant assembly-line employees or teachers.
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Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
2 July 2026
Lurie’s film opens (in black and white) with Black American soldiers getting involved in a deadly confrontation and shifts to America where a post-war Castle visits the home of a former assembly-line worker (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) to talk about her pension.
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
Not just assembly-line jobs but R&D and software — as well as the very brands that defined the economies at risk.
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semafor.com,
9 June 2026
The same pattern repeated when assembly-line production expanded in the early 20th century.
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Christopher Marquis,
Time,
30 May 2026
The first is a nod to Zao’s assembly-line counter setup, which is similar to the build-your-own concept used by Chipotle Mexican Grill.
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Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
20 Apr. 2026
When, in the early nineteen-hundreds, Gibson developed the F-style flat-back, inspired by the Stradivarius violin, the idea was to produce a louder instrument that could be used for classical as well as folk music, while being assembly-line-friendly.
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Tim Parks,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2026
The Medicaid system in particular encourages providers to go for volume with quick, indifferent assembly-line care.
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Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2026
Asked whether the initial handful of repertory titles could grow into a larger slate, perhaps with more contemporary releases, Kirk Shintani, creative director at MakeMake, stressed the importance of not taking an assembly-line approach.
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Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2026
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
2 July 2026
Lurie’s film opens (in black and white) with Black American soldiers getting involved in a deadly confrontation and shifts to America where a post-war Castle visits the home of a former assembly-line worker (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) to talk about her pension.
—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
Not just assembly-line jobs but R&D and software — as well as the very brands that defined the economies at risk.
—
semafor.com,
9 June 2026
The same pattern repeated when assembly-line production expanded in the early 20th century.
—
Christopher Marquis,
Time,
30 May 2026
The first is a nod to Zao’s assembly-line counter setup, which is similar to the build-your-own concept used by Chipotle Mexican Grill.
—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
20 Apr. 2026
When, in the early nineteen-hundreds, Gibson developed the F-style flat-back, inspired by the Stradivarius violin, the idea was to produce a louder instrument that could be used for classical as well as folk music, while being assembly-line-friendly.
—
Tim Parks,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2026
The Medicaid system in particular encourages providers to go for volume with quick, indifferent assembly-line care.
—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2026
Asked whether the initial handful of repertory titles could grow into a larger slate, perhaps with more contemporary releases, Kirk Shintani, creative director at MakeMake, stressed the importance of not taking an assembly-line approach.
—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assembly-line
Adjective
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That’s like a derivative content conversation.
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According to the agency, the Dodd-Frank Act, a 2010 law passed in the wake of the housing crash to tighten financial oversight, expanded its authority by giving it control over swaps, a type of derivative contract.
Adjective
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Maybe so, but think of how badly Congress had stated those hackneyed ideas.
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While not exactly a feminist screed, the script grants nary a free pass to the glut of hackneyed gender conventions in the golden-age canon without at least cracking a joke.
Adjective
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Franklyn-Miller is certainly pretty, serving as a fine face for this story, but the screenplay (by Erwin, Diederik Hoogstraten and Tom Provost) flattens his character into a basic cookie-cutter hero.
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No one expects Leica to deliver a cookie-cutter camera that looks like every other camera on the market.
Adjective
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The film's trailer looked unoriginal and uninteresting.
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The first stage began in July 2025, when Meta announced comprehensive measures targeting accounts that repeatedly share unoriginal content without meaningful enhancement, building on enforcement actions that had already been taken against 500,000 accounts in the first half of the year.
Adjective
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Just look for canned pineapple packed in 100% juice, not heavy syrup.
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Though the restaurant wrapped up its collections earlier this week, Alviany Dominguez, 53, still stopped by Wednesday morning to donate canned food.
Adjective
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Arsenal were distinctly pedestrian in their 1-0 win against Manchester United in their Premier League opener on Sunday, with new signing Viktor Gyokeres still looking out of sync with the rest of team after his $86m move from Sporting Club.
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The unusual start time—one that was especially onerous to viewers on the West Coast—limited Woods’ live deliveries to a rather pedestrian 10.8 million viewers.
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That sort of living-document approach helps keep The Invite from coming off as overly stagy or stodgy.
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Think of it as pasta salad that’s more crunchy greens than stodgy pasta, or a green salad with the extra support and satiety of protein and carbs.
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“Assembly-line.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assembly-line. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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