as in to use
to put into action or service
huge dams harness the power of water to produce electricity
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Recent Examples of harness
Castor oil has long been associated with traditional beauty and wellness, but innovators are now harnessing it to engineer the next generation of sustainable products.
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Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Fueled by a very obvious and growing need to harness the rise of Chinese independent cinema — and its makers — Meng set out also to explore the wider filmmaking world.
—Mathew Scott, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
Netskope aims to help companies protect their data while harnessing artificial intelligence tools.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
If harnessed, this frozen landscape could become a surprising new power source.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
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Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Fueled by a very obvious and growing need to harness the rise of Chinese independent cinema — and its makers — Meng set out also to explore the wider filmmaking world.
—Mathew Scott, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
Netskope aims to help companies protect their data while harnessing artificial intelligence tools.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
If harnessed, this frozen landscape could become a surprising new power source.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for harness
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Opera has used the Neon name before for a concept browser back in 2017.—
James Peckham,
PC Magazine,
30 Sep. 2025
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Others, however, believed that Johnson used his access as leverage in dealing with Bukele.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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The paper's Friday story added that authorities utilized genealogical DNA to secure the recent breakthrough — the same kind of evidence that led to an arrest in the notorious Golden State Killer case in 2018.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
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The streamer has utilized boxing events, such as Canelo-Crawford and the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight, promoted by Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions, to expand its foray into live events.—
Matt Moret,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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State-of-the-art dilution refrigerators exploit mixtures of helium-3 and helium-4 to cool qubits down to millikelvin temperatures where fragile quantum states can persist.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
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That each and every one of us has a role to play in standing up against authoritarian powers that want to exploit our differences for their own gain.—
Hayes Madsen,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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Currently, the federal government is not accepting new applications for the program because of federal court rulings, though individuals already in the program may apply for renewals.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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Alibaba said it could be applied in areas such as smart glasses and intelligent cockpits.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
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VistaVision was designed as a competitor to 20th Century Fox’s CinemaScope, which employed an anamorphic lens to compress a widescreen image onto standard 35mm film stock.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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But federal data shows that in Florida, universities, colleges and schools in the state employ thousands of workers on H-1B visas.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Harness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harness. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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