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generate

[jen-uh-reyt] / ˈdʒɛn əˌreɪt /


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He’s mindful of wasting filament, but small parts don’t tend to generate too much scrap.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

"Claude is trained on a mix of publicly available web data, commercially acquired datasets, and data we generate ourselves," a spokesperson said.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

In the coming years, he said India will have eight more semiconductor chip plants and five nuclear reactors which will generate 100 gigawatts of power by 2047.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

He said that Meta’s potential to generate new revenue streams through enterprise deals could help offset concerns about the company’s heavy AI spending.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

His identity as an outsider, a Northerner, and the nature of the crime seemed to generate heightened contempt from law enforcement officials.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

The Cernavoda plant, which usually generates a fifth of Romania's electricity, has been shut down just once before, in 2003, due to drought.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

"The Sun generates all the heat and the Moon is blocking out the Sun," he explained.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

The movement of liquid iron in the outer core generates the magnetic field that protects the planet from charged particles released by the Sun.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

“It is very unfortunate that an entire industry, which generates millions of dollars in revenue for Mexico, has to be shut down,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Connecting the corners of that pentagon with lines generates a small, upside-down, five-pointed star, which is exactly the same as the original star in its proportions.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

A more speculative possibility is that the material comes from a third member of the system that is being blasted by the fast wind of particles and X-ray radiation generated by the feeding black hole.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

Since 2023, Netflix said its YA shows and movies have generated more than 10.5 billion global views.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

In May, the maker of the Claude large language model said its run-rate revenue was $47 billion, already a big leap compared to the $9 billion Anthropic said it generated in 2025.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

Before Claude, Flieller received pings about stats such as heart-rate variability, or HRV, which generated more stress than clarity.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

He built a wind-powered mechanism that generated noise to scare birds from the family fields and set out to create a perpetual motion machine.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

"Stiffening the joint makes walking safer, but it also means the muscles are working harder without generating as much forward movement," he says.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

Protecting religious freedom and practice has been a Paxton priority since he became attorney general in 2015, generating loyal support from grassroots conservatives.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

When you need it you’re always generating new stakes, and in a presidency they’re often high, and when you fail that is some big failure.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

The sell-off came after tech shares had soared for months, "generating the extreme euphoria" that has moved some personal investors to take out loans to invest, says investment analyst Tobias Reger.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Second, when gases from Earth were introduced into the Martian soil sample, the gases became chemically combined with the soil—almost as if there were photosynthesizing microbes, generating organic matter from atmospheric gases.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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