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combustion

[kuhm-buhs-chuhn] / kəmˈbʌs tʃən /


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Major hyperscalers and more than a dozen of neocloud companies and AI labs that once might have looked at natural-gas powered and other combustion technologies now choose Bloom as a “superior power solution,” he added.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

It was just a very magical combustion of many different things that all came together.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

In a separate statement, the Sikkim government said the accident was caused by "methane gas combustion".

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Instead, the researchers concluded the contamination was probably picked up while the meteorite passed through Earth's atmosphere, where it encountered aerosols produced by fossil fuel combustion.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

A terrific drone of an internal combustion engine started up.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

Insulation adds to the price tag, so the unit itself often acts as an amplifier for the whirring machinery and tiny combustions happening inside.

From Seattle Times Oct. 10, 2022

The 2019 exhibition calendar was unusually crammed with heavily hyped shows, not to mention floating suspense and sudden combustions of fear and loathing.

From Washington Post Dec. 9, 2019

New York signs a pair of lesser talents like, say, Jimmy Butler and Kemba Walker, clawing its way toward a semi-interesting mediocrity before lapsing into another of its periodic combustions.

From The New Yorker Feb. 5, 2019

“The exit in a blaze of glory”, he says of other rockers’ early combustions, “is bullshit.”

From Economist Sep. 27, 2016

These, in time, are again absorbed by vegetables, and again decomposed to set the oxygen at liberty to produce fresh combustions.

From A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. by Anonymous




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