harnessed

Example Sentences

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But what if our desires were not something to be harnessed?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

They harnessed card-playing to productive ends, but few gamblers do.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Emphasising that concept, musical motifs from Arirang appear on the album's opening track, Body To Body, harnessed to a clattering hip-hop beat.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Although they appear magnetically neutral because their spins balance out, their internal magnetic structure can still be harnessed to store digital information in new ways.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026

By the second week of April that year, the fields were dry enough for plowing, and Jethro, full of the optimism of inexperience, harnessed his team and went out to the field alone.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt