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harness

[hahr-nis] / ˈhɑr nɪs /
NOUN
gear for controlling an animal
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What he did possess, however, was the confidence of the financial community the bank was meant to harness and serve—confidence the Continental Congress desperately needed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Read: Can Walmart help the Fed harness real-time U.S. economic data?

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

Technicians install solar panels to harness the sun's power, but have to endure scorching heat as they work.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

"Understanding this basic biological process could open new avenues of research to develop new treatments that harness these steps and help the immune system better fight disease," Professor Poon said.

From Science Daily Jun. 24, 2026

I knew Samir would soon collapse, but he didn’t let go of Rostam’s harness.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Along with the harnesses, hard hats and hi-vis, the safety kit now includes suncream and plenty of water bottles.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

The technology harnesses that pressure to push seawater through reverse-osmosis membranes.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

The nonprofit regularly tests harnesses and carriers and lists the safest ones.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

A swarm of tourists craned their necks to see the instalment of the cross's upper arm, visible amid the scaffolding and workers who put finishing touches from their harnesses.

From Barron's Feb. 20, 2026

Descheeny came down to the hunters who pretended to be adjusting the harnesses and tightening the cinches.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

"The mining sector is dying out in Poland and you have to change something in your life," he says, harnessed and ready to take the elevator to the top of a turbine.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

Which food molecules could be harnessed to develop new drugs, or new foods?

From Science Daily Jun. 17, 2026

For reference, the Delorean time machine in Back to the Future needed 1.21 gigawatts — a figure so comically large it could only be harnessed from plutonium or a bolt of lighting.

From Salon Jun. 12, 2026

Scandalous as that sounds, there’s actually something less supernatural and more terrestrial playing out here: a power struggle between the Catholic Church and influencer priests who’ve successfully harnessed the internet’s algorithms.

From Slate Jun. 8, 2026

It was a small cart, but there was nothing harnessed between the shafts.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

It is being recorded as part of work harnessing hidden microphones, cameras and artificial intelligence to reveal the secrets of species living deep in the rainforest and help protect them.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

But while Carlini’s work had debunked many claims made by AI developers, he had focused on the threat of bad people tricking artificial intelligence systems into making mistakes, not on hackers harnessing them for superpowers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

Clinicians are gathering iris scans, voice recordings and harnessing AI to crunch through and curate masses of data to spot signs of change that may be early indicators of future problems.

From BBC May 22, 2026

In March, Mayor Karen Bass announced a plan to repair and replace up to 60,000 streetlights by harnessing solar power technology, so they’d no longer be reliant on the copper wire that keeps getting stolen.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2026

The sky was pale in the southeast, and the air was suffused with a gray mist, through which the gyptians moved like bulky ghosts, loading sledges and harnessing dogs to the traces.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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