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The ultimate goal is to produce a burning plasma, in which fusion reactions generate enough heat to sustain the process without continued external heating.
From Science Daily ● 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
Taxing such benefits could generate a significant amount of money for the program.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
A huge data centre planned in a village near a nature reserve would generate "very high noise levels" without extensive measures to block it, experts have said.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
That was a gene’s signal to make more RNA messages and thereby generate the relevant enzyme to digest the sugar.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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At a 2% yield, $2 million generates only $40,000 per year before taxes.
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
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
But what is the engine that generates natural variation in the wild?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The climate surrounding routine abductions, he adds, has "generated further difficulties on the youth of Myanmar, already affected by years of civil war, and their families".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Yield, for the record, is also different from return; it represents the income generated — like interest and dividends — while return refers to the overall net gain/loss.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 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
A one-time pad contained randomly generated sets of numbers, organized in groups of five, that were added mathematically to the encoded, numbered messages.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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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
But studies show AI text detectors are often unreliable, generating false positives that can erode trust between instructors and students and forcing teachers to devise innovative methods to detect cheating and evaluate assignments.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
“For many shipowners, the current market is generating revenues at levels rarely seen in the industry’s recent history,” said Dimitris Maniatis, founder and chief executive officer of maritime risk company Marisks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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
Harry felt as though his body was generating waves of hatred so powerful that it seemed incredible that Snape could not feel them burning him.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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