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Roddy Smith, chief executive of Essential Edinburgh, said the tax should generate income to "improve" the city.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
It says in its official announcement that the scheme will generate a “recurring revenue stream” and it expects the sales “to become a meaningful, ongoing source of revenue for the company.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The deal would commit U.S. companies to build nuclear reactors on Saudi soil to generate power.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
These should help AI tools like its Gemini chatbot generate quicker responses and conserve computing resources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
We are programmed to identify patterns and generate grammar.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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The Swiss company generates about a fifth of its revenue from the U.S., and about 55% of this is forecast to come from generic drugs in 2028, according JPM.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“The Five,” the powerhouse afternoon panel show that regularly generates the highest ratings in cable news, completely ignored the address on Friday, Monday and Tuesday.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
She started Glow For It from her mother's kitchen table in 2020 while she was a student and now her business generates £6m a year in sales.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
"In addition, the process generates numerous transformation products that we have not yet been able to investigate in detail -- for instance, gaseous compounds that form during the reaction."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
The importance of an intellectual change simply cannot be measured by the amount of controversy it generates.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Under the terms of the legislation, funds generated by the tax must be reinvested in local services and facilities "substantially used by business and leisure visitors".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The company generated $3.877 billion in subscription revenue during the second quarter, up 24.5% from a year earlier and ahead of the $3.817 billion FactSet analyst consensus.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Year-to-date, the company has generated about $10 billion in free cash flow which is 2.5 times more than it did in 2025, CEO Scott Strazik says on a call with analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
That topic has generated significant speculation among Wall Street investors.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
The foundation had an endowment of roughly $22 billion, which generated about $1.1 billion in annual income to spend on various projects, about half of it to improve global health.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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And yet, “Obsession” is sticking in those conversations, even generating some light award buzz way ahead of Oscar season.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
The MIT design lowered that coupling to about 1 percent while still generating one clean and precise beam.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Because metal sulfide minerals dug up during mining can take hundreds to thousands of years to fully react with surface water, they will keep generating emissions long after a mine's reserves are depleted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
The price energy suppliers pay for electricity is set by a bidding process with each generating company saying what it would be willing to accept to produce one unit of electricity.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
“Then one day they stopped. Today more than ten thousand wells remain scattered across the reservation, but they are generally what oilmen call “stripper” wells, each one generating less than fifteen barrels a day.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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