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conserve

[kuhn-surv, kon-surv, kuhn-surv] / kənˈsɜrv, ˈkɒn sɜrv, kənˈsɜrv /


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Since World War One, the US has set its clocks forward during the summer to have more daylight in the afternoon and to conserve electricity.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

“It’s conserve and then open up the valves again. Learn how to hold yourself in reserve a little bit and play around with energy—rather than just smash into it.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Another local, 25-year-old office worker Edina Fabian, said she and her partner are trying to conserve what they can gather from water carts.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

If all goes according to plan, the San Bernardino Mountains Land Trust will conserve the roughly 63 acres, with the possibility of transferring it to the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

For decades, long before Mount St. Helens made international news, there had been a push to conserve the old-growth forest and natural land before the loggers felled the last of it.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

"The directed network architecture we see in humans is more powerful and conserves resources because more independent neurons can handle different tasks simultaneously," Peng explains.

From Science Daily Apr. 18, 2024

The harbour is leased from East Lothian Council and managed by the volunteer-run North Berwick Harbour Trust charity, which maintains and conserves the site.

From BBC Oct. 30, 2023

Beyond 2023-24, the Kraken limiting Dunn’s deal term hedges bets and conserves future cap space — knowing bigger contracts await Matty Beniers and potentially top draft picks such as Shane Wright and Ryker Evans.

From Seattle Times Jul. 26, 2023

In contrast, reducing waste generation conserves natural resources and avoids other negative environmental impacts throughout a product's life.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2023

The program reduces pollution and conserves natural resources.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

The discovery shows that even one of biology's most conserved systems can be more flexible than expected.

From Science Daily May 7, 2026

It raised the height of a dam to double its storage, built the desalination plant and acquired rights to a trove of conserved Colorado River water from a desert farming district.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

"Over a century later, it is emerging as an elegantly conserved mechanism at the heart of mitochondrial biology. This biophysical process offers a simple and energy efficient means to distribute the mitochondrial genome."

From Science Daily Apr. 13, 2026

Abroad, though, interest rates and inflation risks have shot up, fuel is being conserved, and economic forecasts are darkening.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 4, 2026

He proposed that every feature in a human—height, weight, intelligence, beauty—was a composite function generated by a conserved pattern of ancestral inheritance.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

By conserving these leopards, we are not only saving an iconic predator, but also preserving an evolutionary legacy shaped over thousands of years by one of the most distinctive landscapes on the African continent.

From Science Daily Jun. 24, 2026

A row is growing over the potential cull of Dartmoor's hill ponies as campaigners warn Natural England's approach to conserving the landscape could "devastate" the endangered breed.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

For example, in the early 1990s, he and his colleagues examined standard recommendations for conserving reed beds—important habitats for birds that become overgrown with trees over time.

From Slate Apr. 28, 2026

That’s either because it is no longer capable of firing as many missiles or because it is conserving its munitions.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 7, 2026

Both winners seemed to ease up at the end, conserving energy and turning in relatively slow times, doing just enough to qualify.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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