engine
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The father told authorities that rough waves had struck the jet ski and caused the engine to stop towards the end of the rental period, the Bangkok Post reports.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Google would argue that the search engine is in many ways the way people are accessing the language model and Gemini, right?”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
If auto-start engine cycling makes you crazy, the Maverick provides a large and handy button to turn it off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The researchers have now created the world's first superconducting quantum heat engine.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
This time they used a big engine with a winch and thick chains around a giant drum to drag Cleopatra’s Needle off the boat.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
The Otto cycle is a thermodynamic process also used in car engines and other conventional machines.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
General Motors is expanding its production of V-8 engines by scrapping an earlier plan to make EV motors at a plant in western New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
More than 900 firefighters, 36 engines, six water tenders, seven dozers, 26 hand crews and six helicopters are assigned to the blaze.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service said it sent 10 fire engines, a command support unit, technical rescue teams and other resources to the scene.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
If there was any chance of breaking free, the Boss wanted to be ready for it, and he was burning half a ton of coal a day to keep the engines fired.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing engine
Engineering - Introductory
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Mechanical Engineering
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Engineering - Middle School
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