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convert

[kuhn-vurt, kon-vurt] / kənˈvɜrt, ˈkɒn vɜrt /






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With Allen’s ability to convert on quarterback sneaks from near the goal line, it’s hardly out of the question.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

"The stronger businesses may be those that can deliver growth above expectations, convert that growth into cash, fund future investment from a strong balance sheet and still offer enough earnings upside to justify their valuation."

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Researchers at Oregon State University have created a new class of materials that can use light to produce hydrogen from water, offering a potentially cleaner way to convert solar energy into fuel.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Bass says her administration has made it easier for property owners to convert their office towers into apartments or condominiums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

I taught myself how to convert fractions into decimal points by going online.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio

As the equatorial Kelvin wave hits South America, the energy converts into a coastal Kelvin wave, and heads both north and south along the continents.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Some converts say they're ditching polish as a way of rebelling against an entrenched female beauty standard or to save time and money.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

How did he win converts while being outspoken about controversial truths?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The method converts the distances between events into a single measurement called an SVM score.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Around the Muslim’s restaurant, I met some of the converts, all of them neatly dressed and almost embarrassingly polite.

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

The sprawling New York City duplex is located in the Novare building—formerly the Washington Square Methodist Church built in 1860, which was converted into an eight-unit condominium building in 2006.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

The team also converted some of the collected skin cells into induced neurons, allowing the researchers to examine cellular recycling in three different cell types.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Last month, Judge Alexia Durran, Chief Coroner of England and Wales, said she would write to the Home Secretary to recommend the inquests be converted into a public inquiry.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

In the spring, it was far-flung corners of rural America, where one promising new data center turned out to be AI servers humming inside what appeared to be a converted chicken coop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

We visited a set of converted buses where local artists were doing art therapy with displaced children who, despite their losses and thanks to the adults around them, still bubbled with hope.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

This reaction adds an oxygen atom to a type of organic molecule known as a ketone, converting it into an ester or lactone.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

She produced 12 winners and made just 11 unforced errors, compared to her opponent's 24, converting five of her 14 break points with some impressive groundstrokes.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Airbnb has been using internal AI tools to build and release app features faster, converting more visitors into paid bookings.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Leslie’s expects to hand control of the business to its lenders in exchange for converting their roughly $750 million term loan into equity, one of the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

When a reader is forced to work through one stale idiom after another, she stops converting the language into mental images and slips back into just mouthing the words.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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