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grid

[grid] / grɪd /
NOUN
gridiron
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NOUN
conducting plate
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Pacific Power, a California utility owned by Berkshire Hathaway’s PacifiCorp, faces a costly problem: It has a small customer base to share the expense of hardening the grid in a fire-prone part of Northern California.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Farther afield, this global shortage has left Ukraine unprotected against salvos of Russian missiles aimed at its energy grid and key bridges and factories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

The company does not make AI processors themselves, like those designed by Nvidia, but supplies the chips that help deliver electricity from the grid to the sites.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

Both took new internal combustion engines, which gave them 10-place grid penalties, and then Hamilton's brand new one broke in final practice.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

They were spaced evenly across the globe in a perfect grid, so that, from orbit, Archaide resembled the vector-graphic Death Star from Atari’s 1983 Star Wars arcade game.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

I sat there, sketching grids on a legal pad, trying to figure out how this new type of publication would work.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026

While solar and wind power are being produced in growing quantities, ageing grids and a lack of storage sometimes mean those sources cannot be used as efficiently as they could be.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Anthropic said AI could provide individually tailored education and expert financial and legal advice, advance power grids and battery design for greater efficiency and reliability and help the "developing world" build more technological capabilities.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

They also have the potential to support extraordinarily powerful magnets, making them promising for future power grids, medical scanners, and quantum computers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

My sister walked us to the craft store and we bought square plastic grids and wrapped yarn around them.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri


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