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  • n  a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface)

  • A wheel operating at such a high velocity can explode if knocked off-line--say by hitting a pothole--turning high-tech carbon fibers into shrapnel.
  • The outer plastic case can be recycled to make everything from pothole filler to pencil holders.
  • A few feet later, you feel the thump of a pothole.
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  • Joe Torre in Forbes
    This was just hopefully a pothole that we just didn't like very much,Torre said. "But I don't think we have any doubts on what kind of team we are right now. I think we just hit a bad spot."
  • Svein Tuft in Globe and Mail
    The flat was a nerve wracking moment,Tuft said. "I hit the pothole but I still thought I was OK Then when I rounded the bend it just went right flat to the rim. I just about lost it there through the next corner. Thankfully Chad was there...
  • Mikko Hirvonen in Auto Racing Daily
    I really appreciate what Jari-Matti and François did to help my title challenge,said Hirvonen. "There was a lot of broken asphalt in these stages and I saw a pothole in the distance about 4km after the start. I decided to drive over it -...

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