How to Use plenum in a Sentence
plenum
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Even worse, the tank leak into the plenum isn't the only one.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2018
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This is the remains of a bat, found in a furnace return plenum.
—Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
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But the plenum has yet to be scheduled and may be delayed until next year.
—Joy Dong, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
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This plenum was widely expected to be held last fall but has been delayed.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 12 July 2024
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The committee met for its fourth plenum in Beijing this week.
—Ben Westcott, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
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About a dozen seats are expected to be filled by alternate members at this plenum.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
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The Israeli leader rejected such charges in his speech, albeit to a near-empty plenum.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 26 Sep. 2025
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An air plenum is a part used in heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.
—Dallas News, 20 July 2022
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Instead, there's a water jacket surrounding the plenum chamber.
—Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 1 May 2023
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Yet no sooner had the plenum closed and the party released its initial communiqué than observers dismissed the meeting as a bust.
—Evan A. Feigenbaum, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2013
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Boosting consumer spending and livelihoods gets little more than lip service in the communiqué that followed the plenum at which the five-year plan was mapped out.
—Shaoyu Yuan, The Conversation, 5 Nov. 2025
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Officials asked some groups to organize study sessions to discuss the party pronouncements coming out of the plenum.
—chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
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The party plenum is likely to see a strong criticism against the United States and South Korea.
—Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
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In the weeks ahead of the plenum, Chinese stocks slipped closer to correction territory — or more than 10% from a recent high.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 12 July 2024
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Ahead of this week’s plenum, Chinese state media propaganda extolling Xi’s virtues went into overdrive.
—Christian Shepherd, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021
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Inside the plenum, as debate began, some opposition lawmakers stood and wrapped themselves in Israeli flags in protest.
—Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
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That’s because the engine wears a plastic cover that looks like a crinkle-finish intake plenum, so that is what is actually visible from outside the car.
—Dan Carney, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
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Consular officials sent out requests to CSSAs around the country to hold events related to the plenum.
—chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
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Some legislators supportive of the law took pictures of the plenum during the vote while some spectators in visitors’ seats raised black cloth in apparent protest.
—Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2017
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At a plenum of North Korea’s Workers’ Party planned in the next few days, he is expected to describe the path in more detail.
—The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
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These could come at next month’s full gathering, or plenum, of the central committee of China’s Communist Party.
—WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
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Prime Minister Hani Mulki addressed the plenum before the vote, saying the government backs repeal.
—Alice Su, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2017
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This is why the protests and the subsequent citizen plenums have eschewed ethnic appeals or demands, to the confusion of many international observers.
—Milada Vachudova, Foreign Affairs, 24 Feb. 2014
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The plenum will be closely monitored by outsiders for clues about the inner workings of China’s opaque ruling Communist Party.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
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As if the drama in the Knesset and the fire on the streets weren’t enough, Netanyahu actually arrived at the Knesset plenum directly from a cardiac care unit.
—Jo-Ann Mort, The New Republic, 26 July 2023
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But a Communist Party plenum in North Korea last week focused on economic issues rather than new military threats.
—David Ignatius, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
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Ahead of the plenum, there has been a fresh wave of propaganda stressing Xi’s direct responsibility for recent national achievements.
—Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
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As the period to debate the proposal began, members of Netanyahu’s coalition fled the Knesset plenum, hastily rushing to the exits as the vote neared.
—Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
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Nearly one in five Central Committee members missed the latest plenum under a political cloud, a record in China’s post-Mao era.
—Neil Thomas, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
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It can be coaxed into sounding pretty good, thanks to Power mode and a carbon plenum gulping air into the engine, but for the majority of the time the Polestar 1 is an iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove.
—Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
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