energies

plural of energy
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as in spirits
a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings many Eastern cultures believe in the significance of life energy in the healing process

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as in fuels
something with a usable capacity for doing work some of the power needs of the house are provided by solar energy

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Recent Examples of energies Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly told the European Union’s top diplomat in July that China could not accept a Russian loss in Ukraine, because that might lead the United States to focus its energies on containing China’s rise. Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025 Take time to rejuvenate your energies. Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025 During the 20th century, revolutionary data came in at an alarming rate as new particle physics experiments were performed at higher energies, with better statistics, and in novel environments, such as above Earth’s atmosphere. Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025 Their decay energies go from a few kiloelectron volts (for tritium, or hydrogen-3) to a few megaelectron volts (for yttrium-90). IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2025 As the fraction got more complicated, with more digits in the denominator, the breaks between possible energies got more numerous. Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025 For more than a century, scientists have known that Earth is constantly bombarded by cosmic rays, charged particles with staggering energies, far beyond what our accelerators can produce. Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2025 If Helmy finds in the Party the kind of fellowship and outlet for his energies that a good career might otherwise have satisfied, Erich embraces his new identity with a snarling brutality that is a repudiation of his former sense of humiliation. Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2025 The club are concentrating all their energies on the centre-forward market, which is thin on quality, very expensive and extremely competitive. James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
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  • But the new film, set in 1986, finds the Warrens dealing with a bunch of personal matters, as well as a Pennsylvania family haunted by a mirror cursed with malevolent spirits.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Founded in London in 1969, the IWSC is renowned for its rigorous blind tastings and expert judging panels, which annually evaluate thousands of entries across all major spirits categories.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • Steep, rugged terrain with grass and brush is exhibited over most of the fire area with heavy fuels in flatter topography near the Teakettle Experimental Forest.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • An excess of dry fuels and vegetation is compounded by fire weather conditions that are becoming more common year-round.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • This innovative method produced the first instance of second sound in action, revealing heat waves rippling back and forth like acoustic vibrations.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
  • By shining light onto molecules to analyze these vibrations, techniques such as infrared spectroscopy or Raman spectroscopy can identify these molecules.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical Roald Dahl's beloved 1988 novel about a young girl named Matilda with telekinetic powers has gotten its fair share of adaptations over the years.
    Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Witnessing the rise of the internet, cellphones and social media as a teenager, Acutis harnessed these new powers of communication and coded a website to catalogue and promote eucharistic miracles.
    Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
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  • The actor returned for the Sex and the City sequel's series finale as gallery owner Mark Kasabian, who arrives at Miranda's (Cynthia Nixon) Thanksgiving dinner as a potential suitor for Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), even though the vibes are clearly not there.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement Advertisement But enough with the vibes at this point.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Energies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/energies. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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