combustion
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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
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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.
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