supply line
noun
: the route that is used to deliver food, equipment, etc., to soldiers during a war
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The International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, said in a short statement Friday that a truce had taken effect in southern Ukraine to enable the restoration of the 330-kilovolt supply line to Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
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Sam Meredith, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
All stores in the strip mall were evacuated, and crews located a gas meter behind the building that had been dislodged from the supply line coming from the ground.
—CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
On the first wet dress rehearsal, NASA was able to load the SLS rocket core and upper stages with 700,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX), but during the final test countdown run, an LH2 supply line leak into the core stage exceeded acceptable limits and cut the test short.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
With its supply line throttled, the plasmasphere struggled to rebuild, highlighting how tightly linked Earth's atmospheric layers become during extreme space-weather events.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 25 Nov. 2025
The role, supply line and trust from Baumgart suggest his scoring will remain a net positive even once the streak cools.
—Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
To avoid further supply line pinches like this, GM recently struck a long-term deal with Noveon Magnetics, whose San Marcos, Texas, facility is the only rare earth magnet manufacturer in the United States.
—Rebecca A. Fannin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
If lymph nodes are removed during surgery, the body loses this supply line and immunotherapy is less effective.
—New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2025
The United States, using ship- and submarine-launched missiles alone, would have been able to take out the Kursk bridge, thereby cutting off the most crucial Russian supply line and path for retreat.
—Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
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Sam Meredith, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
All stores in the strip mall were evacuated, and crews located a gas meter behind the building that had been dislodged from the supply line coming from the ground.
—CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
On the first wet dress rehearsal, NASA was able to load the SLS rocket core and upper stages with 700,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX), but during the final test countdown run, an LH2 supply line leak into the core stage exceeded acceptable limits and cut the test short.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
With its supply line throttled, the plasmasphere struggled to rebuild, highlighting how tightly linked Earth's atmospheric layers become during extreme space-weather events.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 25 Nov. 2025
The role, supply line and trust from Baumgart suggest his scoring will remain a net positive even once the streak cools.
—Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
To avoid further supply line pinches like this, GM recently struck a long-term deal with Noveon Magnetics, whose San Marcos, Texas, facility is the only rare earth magnet manufacturer in the United States.
—Rebecca A. Fannin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
If lymph nodes are removed during surgery, the body loses this supply line and immunotherapy is less effective.
—New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2025
The United States, using ship- and submarine-launched missiles alone, would have been able to take out the Kursk bridge, thereby cutting off the most crucial Russian supply line and path for retreat.
—Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
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