discharge
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This created a form of plasma called a glow discharge.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
He served as a photographer in Germany during the Korean War and joined his father at Disney following his 1952 discharge from the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
But the doctors haven't given him a discharge date.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
She said concerns included delays in hospital discharge because care packages were unavailable, long waits for support at home, reduced care provision and difficulties accessing services in rural areas.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
The ice plant did not take up much of his time, and he had a clear service record and an honorable discharge him- self.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Welsh Water is also one of the defendants in an ongoing civil case over pollution in the River Wye, where residents and businesses allege sewage discharges contributed to environmental damage.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
France has reduced output at its nuclear reactors, because the rivers where it discharges water used to cool the reactors are already too hot.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
As the medical director of hospital operations, Dr. Pappas used AI to tackle the inefficient management of admissions, discharges and transfers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The follow-up River Wye Action Plan in 2024 blamed excessive nutrients from farming and wastewater discharges as well as climate change for increasing the water temperature and reducing the water flow in hot dry summers.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
The doctor finally discharges Alan after almost a week.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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A public inquiry, which finished hearing evidence in May, was told he had been discharged in 2022 because he failed to turn up for appointments and the team had "lost" him.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Four servicemembers were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals and have since been discharged, according to Centcom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Student loans can be discharged in some bankruptcy cases, for example, but they are much harder to erase than other kinds of consumer debt.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
One of the injured has been discharged from the hospital, officials said.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
I think he was well inclined toward stubbornness, and contemptuous of failure, long before his conscription into the war and the strange circumstances that discharged him from it.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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France's main energy provider also shut down two nuclear reactors on Thursday as an environmental protection measure to avoid discharging too much hot water into already warming rivers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
But he was then mistakenly prescribed some to take home by the discharging doctor who believed he had been taking it before being admitted.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
And unlike Michael Drejka, she brandished her gun without discharging it.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026
Regarding the one count of discharging a firearm, Allen’s attorneys wrote that the government “has not asserted that Mr. Allen ever fired any of the recovered weapons.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
One day thirty ships arrived, thirteen of them from the West Indies, but no one was available to stop them from docking or discharging passengers.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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