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  • noun Plural form of dumbbell.

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Examples

  • It can also be used with a lesser amount of weight and dumbbells, which is what we'll focus on here.

    Article Source 2009

  • It can also be used with a lesser amount of weight and dumbbells, which is what we'll focus on here.

    Article Source Rodney Williams 2009

  • (otherwise known as dumbbells) that weight between 3 and 5 pounds.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • And speaking of our secret plans to take over all your wreckerated cakes...those "dumbbells" look suspiciously similar in shape to Nathan Phillips Square...from an aerial view of course that's Toronto City Hall for those of you who don't know the great white north.

    Patriot Day 2009

  • American Journal of Sports Medicine, revealed that 90% of injuries occurred while people used free weights, such as dumbbells, as compared to machines.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • They found that when they rushed a magnetic field oriented in the opposite direction over the ice, certain chains of molecules would flip their magnetic directions the other way, resulting in "dumbbells" with defects at either end of the chain.

    Ars Technica Casey Johnston 2010

  • Unspliced reads (black bars) fall within a single exon, whereas spliced reads (bars broken into 'dumbbells') span exon-exon junctions (thin horizontal lines connect the alignment of a read to the exons it spans).

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2010

  • They found that when they rushed a magnetic field oriented in the opposite direction over the ice, certain chains of molecules would flip their magnetic directions the other way, resulting in "dumbbells" with defects at either end of the chain.

    Ars Technica Casey Johnston 2010

  • American Journal of Sports Medicine, revealed that 90% of injuries occurred while people used free weights, such as dumbbells, as compared to machines.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • American Journal of Sports Medicine, revealed that 90% of injuries occurred while people used free weights, such as dumbbells, as compared to machines.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

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