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circuit

[sur-kit] / ˈsɜr kɪt /


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GB's qualification is far from certain after the programme went part-time and the team slipped from the top tier of the international circuit.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

A qubit is an electrical circuit capable of storing quantum information and, in this setup, also served as the detector.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Unfortunately, that circuit failed today, and when it went to flip into the backup, we discovered that the backup fiber had a break,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

She’s hitting 50 cities on her “New Face, New Tour” circuit and has a Palm Springs residency set for early 2027.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

In his mind it was the circuit board’s fault for being behind him.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

The loss of both circuits impeded controllers’ ability to communicate with airplanes, prompting the FAA to expand the ground stop to New York’s other two major airports, John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Their contributions included expertise in analyzing neural circuits and models relevant to epilepsy.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

What is the new Madring circuit in Spain like in terms of power compared to all the previously visited circuits?

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Justices were expected to “ride the circuits”—to spend part of each year hearing appeals and presiding over trials in the geographical circuits they represented.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

He dismantles the machine, stares into its circuits, lets his fingers trace the journeys of electrons.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

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

It would have been impossible to insulate the personal electricity with which each of them was so highly charged, and short circuiting must have occurred.

From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by




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