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grid

[grid] / grɪd /
NOUN
gridiron
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NOUN
conducting plate
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Championship leader Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes qualified seventh but will start at the back because of a grid penalty for taking a new engine.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

Russell was 0.120 seconds quicker than Leclerc, with Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli, who will start the race from the back with a grid penalty, just 0.021secs behind the Ferrari.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

Researchers then photographed both sides of the animal's head against a specially designed grid board before quickly releasing the shark.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

But in an area with plentiful water but a higher percentage of water-hogging fossil-fuel power on the local grid, using more water in cooling could decrease net water use.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

If you landed on a Lego grid that had a trap on it—quicksand, falling rocks or lava—you had to pull one of the index cards and correctly answer that question for points or you died.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

These massive sites, which are proliferating across the country, produce loud noise and pollution, rely on enormous amounts of water and electricity, tax power grids and inflate utility bills.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

The country is positioning itself as a critical supplier for the global energy transition, with demand surging for copper used in electric vehicles, power grids and renewable energy infrastructure.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

More elaborate designs, including hatched bands, grids, and diamond-shaped motifs, also showed evidence of rotation, translation, repetition, and "embedding," i.e., the ability to build hierarchical levels of signs within the same surface.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

The unit, which uses conventional lithium-ion batteries, is the fastest-growing part of the company and creates systems designed for large-scale energy storage on power grids.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Logic puzzles used grids, but she didn’t see how that scrap of paper added up to being a logic puzzle.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman




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