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Recent Examples of carbon Their investment in fuel-efficient Boeing 737 MAX aircraft has also reduced per-passenger carbon emissions on key routes. Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 18 June 2025 Advertisement In China, rapidly expanding clean energy has sent carbon emissions into reverse for the first time, part of a 15 year plan by Beijing to electrify its economy and reduce its dependence on fossil fuels. Laurence Tubiana, Time, 18 June 2025 Prairie State is one of the top 10 biggest polluters in the country, and released over 12 million tons of carbon emissions in 2023, according to the EPA’s most recent greenhouse gas data. Lily Carey, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2025 The company plans for its super-midsized Phantom 3500 to enter service in 2030, about 20 years before aviation has made a collective pledge to reach net-zero carbon emissions. Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 18 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for carbon
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Noun
  • Map The Workflow With A Digital Twin Create a digital twin of your agency’s workflow before new hires start.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • The Destination Earth digital twins are replicas of Earth systems used to monitor, simulate and predict the interaction between natural phenomena and human activities.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • His 1806 map does not have street names, but a copy kept with the Library of Congress shows numerical markings below all but one of the streets running perpendicular to the Ohio River.
    Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 5 July 2025
  • American Heart Debuts at No. 1 Luminate reports that in its first seven days of availability in the country, American Heart sold 30,000 copies.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Flagship boutiques from Milan and Paris lined the promenades, conjuring images of home.
    Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Their infrared sensors capture images over an area of 1,600 nautical miles, beaming down information twice every day.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Ticket Information Imperial War Museum/Underground Air-Raid Exhibit Located within the larger Imperial War Museum, the reproduction of an underground air-raid shelter exhibit offers visitors a chilling sense of what life was like during the London Blitz.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Some of the original wallpapers were scanned and reprinted, while headboards feature large-scale reproductions of watercolor landscapes by Sosthène Weis, the Luxembourgish painter whose works are on display at the National Museum of History and Art.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • One of Tim Harmon’s proudest achievements, his son Avi Harmon said, was the creation of the Statue of Liberty Museum, home to more than 600 replicas of Lady Liberty in all sizes.
    Samanta Habashy, IndyStar, 3 July 2025
  • There are replicas of her most beloved pots and utensils, handwritten and typed letters, and other ephemera.
    Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The appeal is built on two ideas: 1) the amazing feat of using prehistoric DNA to clone new dinosaurs; and 2) the terrifying prospect of those dinosaurs behaving like, well, dinosaurs (namely the carnivorous ones).
    Will Harris, EW.com, 27 June 2025
  • Under the pressures of fame and parasocial demands, pop star Poppy relinquishes control to Aura, an AI clone trained on her past content.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • That guaranteed a franchise favorite stayed in Minnesota, and paints a clear picture of where the Timberwolves are financially heading into next week’s NBA rat race.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 28 June 2025
  • Paola Jaramillo, the co-founder and executive director of Enlace Latino NC, a nonprofit Spanish-language digital news outlet covering North Carolina, painted a similar picture.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Left with almost nothing, these duplicates have built an Old West-style society from the rubble of their former existence.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • At issue was a high school administrator mistakenly typing the wrong class name on Richardson’s transcript, creating an accidental duplicate.
    Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025

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“Carbon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carbon. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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