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Recent Examples of powered
Inside, the Ingenieur Automatic 40 is powered by the in-house Caliber 32111, offering a robust 120-hour power reserve—an engineering feat that mirrors the endurance and performance demanded on the track.
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Carol Besler, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2025
Carol Besler, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for powered
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This article was generated by the Bay Area Home Report Bot, software that analyzes home sales or other data and creates an article based on a template created by humans.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Travel pictures and videos generated and edited using AI are used to lure people into paying for travel packages or tours that don’t exist.—
Christopher Elliott,
Dallas Morning News,
25 Feb. 2026
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Straight-line winds form when cold air in a thunderstorm sinks to the Earth’s surface and is pushed outward.—
Julia James,
Dallas Morning News,
24 Feb. 2026
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Then the Jayhawks pushed their advantage to double figures and rode out the win.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
24 Feb. 2026
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Mazda’s engineers designed the -Z to be electrified from the get-go, so the amount of electrification is fairly flexible.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
23 Feb. 2026
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The flap over the unaired interview electrified the crowd at Talarico’s get-out-the-vote event.—
Joseph Morton,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Once the commission has made a final decision, which is expected to happen in August, the project is scheduled to be energized by 2029.—
Lana Ferguson,
Dallas Morning News,
19 Feb. 2026
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Jackson particularly energized Black voters in San Diego, said Greg Akili, 77, who used to live in San Diego and was more recently the national field coordinator for Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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It has been used in other high-profile cases like that of Joseph DeAngelo, dubbed the Golden State Killer, and Bryan Kohberger, who was charged with the murder of four University of Idaho students in 2022.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
22 Feb. 2026
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Nipp was later charged in January 2014 for evading the police, while the two passengers were not seen again after the police chase and were determined to be missing.—
Josh Kelly,
Oklahoman,
21 Feb. 2026
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Fifield’s squad car was positioned on the right shoulder/emergency lane of eastbound I-80 with its emergency lights activated.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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Getting Ayton activated has been a positive for the Lakers.—
Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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Neely backed into the street with his gun and fired three times.—
Noelle Phillips,
Denver Post,
24 Feb. 2026
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Employees are fired after an initial positive drug test, for refusing to take a drug test, or for tampering with the test sample.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Feb. 2026
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On January 20, Netflix switched its bid to all cash.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
24 Feb. 2026
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The city called in more than 5,000 substitutes Philadelphia switched to online learning Monday and Tuesday, while districts on Long Island and elsewhere in the New York suburbs canceled school again Tuesday.—
Jake Offenhartz,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Powered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/powered. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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