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Research institutions and private companies are pursuing several different ways to generate electricity from fusion and eventually deliver that power to the electrical grid.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
One of the beefs homeowners have with PWCs—and so called “wake boats”—is that the waves they generate can slam moored boats into docks and erode shorelines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
"What happened should not be used to generate alarms and disorder," he said, adding that he had called for a report on the damage.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Tesla’s next task is to prove those sales will generate enough cash to fund its AI ambitions, and that the money it spends on them will reward shareholders.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
They could not be plants, or green, without their chloroplasts, which run the photosynthetic enterprise and generate oxygen for the rest of us.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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The math gets more appealing at 5.3%, as the same sum generates $106,000.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Still socially awkward, the rendition of Zuckerberg is now one of a powerful, globally known figure, whose platform generates billions of dollars and is used by millions of people.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
It is used in more than 140,000 restaurants across the country and generates over $2.5 billion in annual gross bookings, Uber said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The Moon no longer generates a global magnetic field, but traces of its ancient magnetism remain locked inside lunar rocks and soil.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 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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Or it could be that the income generated by a bond is attractive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Sea levels are already significantly above the official tide forecasts, which are generated years in advance and don’t account for an El Niño.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
NSW coal generated Aus$23.4 billion in exports last year, with most shipped for electricity generation to South Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Season 35 of “DWTS” has already generated $5.7 million in trading volume as of Monday, Kalshi told me.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 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
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As matter streams from the brown dwarf toward the star, it strikes the stellar surface at high speeds, generating an intensely heated region.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
According to Psychology Today, “the same neural pathways responsible for generating innovative connections for humor may also create the intense introspection characteristic of depression.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The securities industry is generating record tax revenue for New York, increasing the city’s and state’s vulnerability to a downturn, the state comptroller warns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The only thing I can think of that’s worse than getting stuck on Greatest Hits or Top 40 is pushing a button and generating “infinite personalized music” with no human influence.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Usually, when Chicken needed Cat, her brain took over, generating Chicken-helping options like a supercomputer.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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