discharge
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Workers will then disinfect the repaired section with chlorine, test the water quality, then dechlorinate the water and discharge it into a storm drain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
This created a form of plasma called a glow discharge.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
But the doctors haven't given him a discharge date.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
She said her office had seen a significant increase in calls from older people and families struggling to access domiciliary care, including delays to hospital discharge, reduced care provision and long waits for support.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Mark Fossie was busted to PFC, shipped back to a hospital in the States, and two months later received a medical discharge.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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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
Sewage discharges, runoff of fertilisers and manures from farms and wastewater from industry can all increase nutrient levels in rivers and estuaries.
From BBC ● May 2, 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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Four servicemembers were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals and have since been discharged, according to Centcom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
It requires monthly payments of at least $10 and 30 years of payments before balances can be discharged, unless borrowers are in public service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
He had been discharged from Nottingham City Hospital about 14 hours after he was born, but Natalie had concerns that she believes were dismissed because she had four older children.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Your old roommate, whose name and face you’ve already forgotten, was discharged that morning.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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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
And unlike Michael Drejka, she brandished her gun without discharging it.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026
Moloney said by discharging Calocane to his GP, the trust "left him to the general public to deal with".
From BBC ● May 5, 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
It is true one or two errors have been noticeable recently in the discharging of his duties, but these are in every case very trivial in nature.'
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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