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circuit

[sur-kit] / ˈsɜr kɪt /


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It may do better on the romantasy awards circuit, though.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Despite his excursion, the Briton recovered to win the race - the first to be held at the circuit in upstate New York which staged the US Grand Prix until 1980.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Netflix has high hopes for the film, which won six audience awards on the festival circuit and will be Spain’s entry for the Academy Awards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

For Formula One watchers, Lego built life-size, drivable replicas of the teams’ race cars, which drivers took around the circuit at last year’s Miami Grand Prix.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 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

Launching a consultation on its policy on Friday, the Welsh government said undergrounding electricity circuits could "reduce the visual impact of electricity infrastructure, helping to protect landscapes and local amenity".

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Southern California Edison warned Malibu residents that it might shut down power on four major circuits beginning Thursday at midnight, the city of Malibu said in a written statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Rather than depending on one master switch, multiple neural circuits, hormones, and metabolic signals appear to help determine how age-related changes unfold.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Using light, researchers are now able to switch individual neural circuits on or off in a brain.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

I have made my seven circuits around the Ka’ba, led by a young Mu- tawaf named Muhammad.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

Perhaps the cables got crossed—or short circuited or something.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

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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