adapter
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Mr. Armitage writes with a poet’s mastery of rhythm and rupture, refusing both the sterile fidelity of the scholar and the vulgar opportunism of the adapter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
"We call it the universal adapter," Schultheiß explains.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
"There was an adapter charging system - full of chargers - and the fire comes out of that."
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
The most practical option was an old-school corded phone and a cellular-to-landline adapter.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
A small refrigerator is plugged into an adapter that has six different electrical devices all feeding into one outlet.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Poorly manufactured adapters lack the internal protections for managing power surges, says Bunnie Huang, a hardware researcher, hacker and electrical engineer based in Singapore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
If not, adapters are available for less than £10.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
Customers purchase what they need a la carte — a combination of jacket hoses, nozzles, valves and adapters that, when assembled, vastly increases the water flow rate from a homeowner’s outdoor faucet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Whatever your opinions of that series — and there are plenty — it laid out the duo’s strengths as adapters and their weaknesses as creators of original material.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
The Greeks, he remembered regretfully, were clever adapters.
From Kenny by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens
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