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Recent Examples of harnessed
Without being properly harnessed, Wongel became separated from her seat during the 110-foot drop and fell to the bottom of the attraction's shaft, Colorado Department of Labor and Employment's Division of Oil and Public Safety investigators said.
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David Chiu, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
Many companies have harnessed AI tools to strengthen their offering as threats rise in sophistication.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
Fandom and fashion are colliding like never before, and no brand has harnessed this intersection of interests quite like POP MART.
—Sarah Boyd, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
If harnessed, this frozen landscape could become a surprising new power source.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
Fitzgerald explained how these tools can be harnessed to help retailers and consumers.
—Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025
Thanks to the flaw, the hackers were able to crack the credentials and gain administrative privileges to accounts on Ascension’s Microsoft Active Directory server, which can be harnessed to manage user accounts and applications over a company’s network.
—PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
Then, there’s the one about the two Asian guys who are harnessed to a chariot and made to pull it along, like horses, with bits in their mouths, while this other Asian guy, holding the reins, lashes them with a whip.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 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
David Chiu, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
Many companies have harnessed AI tools to strengthen their offering as threats rise in sophistication.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
Fandom and fashion are colliding like never before, and no brand has harnessed this intersection of interests quite like POP MART.
—Sarah Boyd, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
If harnessed, this frozen landscape could become a surprising new power source.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
Fitzgerald explained how these tools can be harnessed to help retailers and consumers.
—Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025
Thanks to the flaw, the hackers were able to crack the credentials and gain administrative privileges to accounts on Ascension’s Microsoft Active Directory server, which can be harnessed to manage user accounts and applications over a company’s network.
—PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
Then, there’s the one about the two Asian guys who are harnessed to a chariot and made to pull it along, like horses, with bits in their mouths, while this other Asian guy, holding the reins, lashes them with a whip.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for harnessed
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Reeve’s first technical was being upset with the officials for the physicality being used on Collier in the second quarter.—
Mike Cook,
Twin Cities,
27 Sep. 2025
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Slaten was the first of six Red Sox relievers Cora used in a game managed with aggressive perfection.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
27 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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At the heart of the conflict will be whether the owners desire to implement a salary cap, the system utilized by other major American sports leagues.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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The country applied in 2022 to be a member of the European Union, and the reelection of a pro-European government could make the path to membership more favorable.—
Rajeev Tyagi,
ABC News,
29 Sep. 2025
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The findings also show that the 2025 cost-of-living adjustment, applied in October 2024, did little to improve the adequacy of SNAP benefits.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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For example, Makris is concerned that the Nottinghamshire Police in the UK have begun testing a Unitree Go2, which can be exploited by UniPwn.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Sep. 2025
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The vulnerability can be exploited by low-privileged users to create a denial-of-service attack or by higher-privileged users to execute code that runs with unfettered root privileges.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
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Leakey employed Goodall as a secretary and sent her to study primate behavior in London in 1958.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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This receptiveness led to Ockenfels’ favorite pictures from their partnership — inspired by the facial distortions in the paintings of Francis Bacon — in which bendings of glass were employed to warp Bowie’s likeness.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Harnessed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harnessed. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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