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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
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
Evercore ISI analyst Amit Daryanani noted that Sandisk “expects the agreements to generate highly attractive returns even at floor pricing.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
"There is no doubt that the big six clubs, as global brands in their own rights, have always been able to generate the highest fees," Maguire said.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The other main reason for autocatalysis is that new technologies and materials make it possible to generate still other new technologies by recombination.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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 U.S. business for JBS generates more than half of the meatpacker’s roughly $80 billion in annual revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Because the source generates intense terahertz radiation that can be tuned to different frequencies, the researchers were able to change the material's optical properties, especially its reflectivity, both strongly and rapidly.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
Held aloft in a cloud of heat that generates not from my surroundings, but from my own being.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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Armed with the cash generated by selling around a third of the club to Bezos and company, Liverpool will seek to dethrone Arsenal and claim a record 21st English title.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 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
The Shanghai-based contract chip maker said Thursday that it expects industrial momentum and the spillover effects generated by AI to persist, driving broad-based chip demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
That generated plenty of oohs and ahhs, and people crowded around him with questions about his trip.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Clinical geneticist Dr. Xiao P. Peng, who helped confirm Hinken’s family’s diagnoses, said the tools still make mistakes and are better at generating possible leads, translating complex medical jargon and compiling research than making diagnoses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
"Our broadcast numbers are looking good, our online audiences are generating great numbers, and we're growing. We're doing great stuff, so I think it has been our best year."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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
Plus, he’s already begun generating co-commissions with the New York Philharmonic and L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Writing was never developed or even adopted by hunter-gatherer societies, because they lacked both the institutional uses of early writing and the social and agricultural mechanisms for generating the food surpluses required to feed scribes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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