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Mayor Vitali Klitschko said this month that the city's capacity to generate electricity had been "destroyed", despite repairs since last winter.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
The Spanish-language film “La Bola Negra” also is expected to generate Academy Awards buzz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
As massive objects orbit one another, they generate gravitational waves, tiny distortions in spacetime that travel outward through the universe.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
For this to work out for investors, we have to get past the temporary capex-related profits to generate sustainable AI profits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
And my face felt oily enough to generate two or three more Olympus Mons-sized pimples.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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Capital expenditure, or capex, by one company generates revenue for other companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
But North Korea may need more time to advance its torpedo system, particularly in reducing the noise it generates underwater, he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
The math gets more appealing at 5.3%, as the same sum generates $106,000.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
"Ticketing revenue generates less than 20% of our total revenue from The Open," Darbon says.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
If there are exact locations in the brain that allow for the ability to hear or to breathe, is there a place that generates human social behavior?
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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“We believe this overlooks the substantial operating earnings already being generated across the key parts of the ecosystem,” the analysts said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Specifically, it amplifies the signals generated when the tongue detects sweet, bitter, and umami flavors.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
A potential Tesla–SpaceX merger has generated a lot of speculation, with Barclays analyst Dan Levy recently suggesting that it’s almost a done deal.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Social media and marketing expert Joel Marlinarson says the moment was well-engineered and generated "a lot of conversation" on what it means for the "future of modelling and social media".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Then it was back to Paris to work on the peace treaty ending the war, an experience that generated his lifelong enmity toward Franklin, who found him insufferably austere and obsessively diligent.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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But nearly five years of war has seen that dramatically slashed, although the current generating capacity remains unclear.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
The entertainment powerhouse says it has worked with more than 6,000 creators this year, a 30% increase from 2025, generating nearly 12 billion social-media impressions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
“It’s a foundational study about the chemistry of plastics interacting with the most common chemical, water, and it’s important because it really does show that these things are capable of generating hydroxyl radicals,” Campen said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Planning documents for an outline planning application detail a "temporary ancillary energy centre" with gas turbines that have a maximum generating capacity of 49.9MW.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
He was buying equipment to make his collection of cars simpler, but he wasn’t generating the kind of revenue necessary to support the costs.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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