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Recent Examples of powering
In terms of scale, this means that NFPA 855 covers systems as small as a those capable of powering an average American home for one day, all the way up to the largest systems that can provide backup power for entire towns.
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Erin Smith, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Capable of powering 1 million homes for one hour all at once, the Waratah Super Battery is meant to stabilize Australia’s power grid.
—Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
Erin Smith, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Capable of powering 1 million homes for one hour all at once, the Waratah Super Battery is meant to stabilize Australia’s power grid.
—Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for powering
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Along with this new relentless fast pace, the Heat tweaked the offense to use fewer pick-and-rolls, fewer handoffs and fewer play calls while generating more paint attacks this season.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
25 Oct. 2025
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Wiley added that Barrett-Jackson is good at generating excitement for the vehicles, so the car could get even more than his top line estimate of $1 million.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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Democrats are pushing to extend soon-to-expire health care tax credits and reverse earlier Medicaid cuts, but Republicans have rejected those proposals.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The partisan scramble was sparked by Trump pushing Texas and other Republican-majority states to redistrict to preserve the party’s majority in the House, prompting Democrats to launch their own efforts to push back.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker, already defeated Cuomo once in the Democratic primary, energizing progressives to score a surprise victory over the once-powerful former governor with a campaign that focused on lowering the cost of living in one of the country’s most expensive cities.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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The standard answer was that Mamdani won the Democratic primary by energizing young voters, leaving Democrats with no option but to endorse their party’s nominee.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
30 Oct. 2025
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Detroit’s first wireless charging roadway and UCLA’s expanding project for multi-user EV transit hubs reflect rising federal support, with more expansion planned through 2026.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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Both Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk have made billions charging as much for these drugs as the market will allow.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
7 Nov. 2025
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Benson Boone His live show is electrifying and his acrobatics breathtaking (as in, please let this young man land on his feet and not his head).—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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Hurst spoke of the ways Amazon is looking to utilize new technologies to serve customers and reduce emissions—from minimizing packaging to electrifying fleets of delivery vehicles.—
Simmone Shah,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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Earlier Tuesday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the country detected North Korea test-firing around 10 rounds of artillery toward its western waters on Monday, shortly before Hegseth arrived at an inter-Korean border village with Ahn to begin his two-day visit to South Korea.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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Swinney appeared to joke about Clemson potentially firing him after losing to Duke on Saturday.—
Jordan Sigler,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Shipping itself is efficient per ton-mile and still accounts for roughly 3 percent of global CO₂; switching from a very long ocean journey to a medium-range truck haul can be a wash for that reason.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Social Security checks under different measures Yet the data suggests that switching to a different COLA measure might not result in the substantial boost to benefits that retirees and other beneficiaries hope to see.—
Lorie Konish,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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Founded in Melbourne, Airwallex later moved to the Asian finance hub of Singapore after launching in the country in early 2022.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
3 Nov. 2025
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For now, imagine a skater launching off a quarter pipe two thousand feet high, then somersaulting.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Powering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/powering. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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