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converter

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as in engine

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Recent Examples of converter Jamison is the city’s most prolific converter of offices to market-rate apartments and currently has a major makeover of a downtown office skyscraper underway for tenants who can pay top rents. — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026 Just note that the steamer isn’t dual-voltage, so a converter is needed for international travel. — Alexandra Malmed, InStyle, 19 June 2026 The input decoder chip is a Chrontel CH7516 DisplayPort-to-LVDS converter. — IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2026 The electrical system has a shore power hookup, multi-stage 120-V converter and solar prewiring. — C.c. Weiss may 15, New Atlas, 15 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for converter

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The science behind rare disease drug development is changing fast, and with it, so is the financial engine that drives it all.

— Brad Quick, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Are crazy engine swaps or transmission swaps something that could be on the table if someone wanted that?

— Jerry Perez, The Drive, 27 Aug. 2026

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Because the coating stops being an insulator when its breakdown threshold is reached, the charge rips through it in a miniature dielectric breakdown, the same failure mode that kills capacitors and transformer insulation.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
Witnesses in East Chicago believe an electrical utility pole went up in flames following a possible transformer explosion.

— Lauren Victory, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026

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The pace of improvement in AI models has led many observers to predict that human intelligence may soon be overtaken by the cognitive capacity of machines.

— George C. Lee II, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
China has a virtual monopoly on these minerals, which are critical to making everything from cars and jet engines to smartphones and even the dye used in MRI machines.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026

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