high-voltage

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Recent Examples of high-voltage The country built an average of 2,000 miles of high-voltage transmission per year between 2012 and 2016. Umair Irfan, Vox, 22 Apr. 2025 Britain’s high-voltage network, like those of other countries, used to be relatively simple, bringing electricity from large generating plants — often near where the coal burned in them was mined — to London and other cities. Stanley Reed, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025 The Grid, an essential piece of infrastructure, consists of a network of over 7,000 power plants connected by hundreds of thousands of miles of high-voltage transmission lines. Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025 Once in motion, the concert sparked like a high-voltage power line unmoored from its pole and left to jump uncontrollably in the middle of a street. Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for high-voltage
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Adjective
  • Portable training accounts, which follow workers across jobs, would provide continuity in a dynamic economy.
    Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Time, 11 May 2025
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    Patricia Schultheis, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2025
Adjective
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    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The system poses a significant kinetic threat to American and allied aircraft, including the F-35.
    Sinan Ciddi and Jonathan Schanzer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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    Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
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    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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    Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 13 May 2025
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    West Virginia Tourism, AFAR Media, 9 May 2025
Adjective
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    Christa Sgobba, SELF, 12 May 2025
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    Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Adjective
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    Simmone Shah, Time, 20 May 2025
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    Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • The trade dispute between China and the EU escalated last October after Brussels raised tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to as high as 45.3 percent, citing concerns over overcapacity that undercuts local manufacturers.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
  • Hybrid electric vehicle sales in North America, however, expanded due to higher EV incentives in the region.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 13 May 2025

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