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generator

[jen-uh-ray-ter] / ˈdʒɛn əˌreɪ tər /
NOUN
engine converting energy
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Shemrai plans to buy a diesel-powered generator for her new home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Wind power was the largest generator of electricity in Britain last year, accounting for almost 30% of all power, marginally above gas.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Kim estimated that the market was placing a $200 billion valuation on Caterpillar’s generator business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

When a radio frequency generator sends a signal into the capacitor, the resulting electromagnetic field interacts with the plasma filament.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

Late at night the generator was turned off, and then they had to use lamps like the ones Joao had at the trading post.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

The company said its backup diesel generators run only for five minute tests each week and, thanks to abatement efforts, produce "about 44 decibels of sound, quieter than a soft conversation three feet away."

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Gund was at its own crossroads when Steve and his older brother, Rich—now the company’s chairman and chief operating officer—joined full time in the early 1990s, helping make spare parts for generators and other components.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“In 2022 you had all these wind investments, and other power generators starved for capital,” while at that time Altius, under Dalton’s direction, “was buying up assets left and right.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

What specific types of nuclear energy generators are safe enough to use?

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2026

“The city’s generators are always going down, so electricity is unreliable, and people use diesel fuel.”

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini


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