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[sur-kit] / ˈsɜr kɪt /


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Eaton, a century-old manufacturer of circuit breakers, switchgear and other electrical equipment, has spent $13 billion on acquisitions since 2025, including businesses that have expanded its data-center operations.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

The researchers connected the transmon qubit to a quantum circuit refrigerator, allowing them to control heat flow on the quantum scale and demonstrate that this heat could be transformed into measurable work.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

But over the past year, this fresh-faced pair from Querétaro, a small state just outside Mexico City, has dominated the festival world circuit.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

World Rugby held a trial for the smaller balls with female players on the top-tier Sevens circuit in November.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

The alleged sheep contained an oat-tropic circuit; at the sight of such cereals it would scramble up convincingly and amble over.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Stress is already known to influence thinking and behavior, but researchers have had a limited understanding of how cortisol affects the specific brain circuits involved in navigation.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

Brain imaging revealed changes in circuits associated with emotion, raising the possibility that the technology could support mood regulation and psychological resilience.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

At the heart of Britain's coin factory, old Bank of England telephones are stripped down and dipped into giant vats to recover a hidden treasure: the gold in their circuits.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

As of Thursday, two circuits have affirmed the government’s position and six opposed it, teeing up what experts call an inevitable Supreme Court challenge.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Deep freeze, armchair, film tapes, circuits, beds, and all like skeletons thrown in a cluttered mound deep under.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

For centuries, even millennia, people learned songs through the oral tradition, which has been short circuited by the advent of electronic media and inexpensive print communications, in just the last century.

From New York Times Sep. 19, 2016

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

Alas, poor soul! my son, Prince John, my son, With several troops hath circuited the court, This house, the city, that thou canst not 'scape.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt

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

After being transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he spent the next four months circuiting a nexus of prisons and detention centers.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2015

River piracy—Domestic, the short circuiting of a meander, such as at Coo in the Ardennes; Foreign, such as Shoalhaven River, Australia—stream has captured river.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott




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