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converter

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as in engine

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Recent Examples of converter The facility is reportedly the world’s first 500-kilovolt (kV), 2,000-megawatt (MW) flexible direct current (DC) offshore converter station. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026 Altman, 41, is OpenAI’s billionaire cofounder, CEO and chief converter of skepticism into purchase orders. — Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for converter

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Noun

Its boosted flat-six engine receives a power bump, and rear-axle steering is now standard, as are larger brakes with six-piston calipers up front.

— Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026
The breakthrough was to make Bonnie’s loneliness the emotional engine.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

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Then, in 2017, a team at Google devised a new kind of neural network architecture called a transformer that supercharged the attention method and stripped away everything else.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
In the following decades, computer scientists and engineers enabled computing capabilities to be scaled up, developing graphics chips, the transformer architecture and more.

— Arryn Robbins, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of transformer

Noun

Being part of a tank crew means being exposed to high levels of noise and vibration in a huge machine that's constantly bouncing you about like a pea in a tin.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2026
The gang had orchestrated a $40 million fraud scheme that was based on accessing the ATM machines.

— Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2026

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