circuit
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The researchers envision placing the Andreev qubit inside a closed superconducting circuit, allowing its supercurrent to circulate continuously.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Complicating matters further, the DP World Tour essentially issued an ultimatum: Players wouldn’t be allowed to compete on both the European circuit and LIV in 2027—even if LIV went belly up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The researchers suggest that humans may have developed advanced fine motor abilities by adapting an older neural circuit originally involved in controlling sensory input.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
Badrinath is one of four sacred sites on the Char Dham pilgrimage circuit, alongside Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
After working with Jake, I realized that circuit training was the piece of the puzzle that I had been missing prior to 2012.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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The power then passes through circuits assembled from parts recovered from destroyed homes before being stored in batteries.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
Although the brain plays a central role in how pain is experienced, researchers have struggled to identify the precise brain circuits responsible for pain triggered by movement.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
The company said it expected logic and foundry customers—those seeking to produce the integrated circuits that power everything from smartphones to computers and data centers—to be the strongest growth driver next year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
"This beautiful developmental transition is completely disrupted in Alzheimer's disease by pathological processes that mess with episodic memory and interfere with circuits that allow you to think about your own life, lexicon, and vocabulary."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Legally you’re not. But really you are. Biologically. You’re not made out of transistorized circuits like a false animal; you’re an organic entity.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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It is a sleek pod — half spaceship, half motherboard, with glass floors and a ceiling circuited with green neon tubes — on the eighth floor of a building in the bustling Shibuya district.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2023
She shows no bitterness about the turn of events that short circuited her diplomatic trajectory.
From Washington Times ● May 31, 2014
Their invention, Roominate, offers girls the experience of building a working circuited dollhouse in pastel colors.
From Time ● Nov. 27, 2013
Wouldn’t that have short- circuited, say, the return of Steve Jobs to Apple?
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 30, 2011
Before deciding, Tom asked that Dr. Miles at the Bureau of Mines be circuited into the telephone conversation.
From Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
Warnings had not been heeded that damp ash conducts electricity, short circuiting power lines and substations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Her thoughts spiraled: “Is he short circuiting? I thought…Is this a stroke?…Has he been drugged?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
The explosion in Karachi was the result of short circuiting inside a room where the electric system is controlled, according to Nasir Aftab, who is deputy-inspector general for the city’s police.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
Barbare spent much of her time circuiting the provinces, trying to help her feckless husband and then her hapless son salvage catastrophic careers.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
The short circuiting of the secondary circuit almost entirely annuls the inductance of the primary circuit.
From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming
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