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convert

[kuhn-vurt, kon-vurt] / kənˈvɜrt, ˈkɒn vɜrt /






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No one in his or her right mind would choose to convert, though, because the U.S. stocks trade at a fat premium to the price in Korea, after adjusting for the currency.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

It contains cells that detect light and convert it into electrical signals, which are then sent to the brain and assembled into the images we see.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

The building's current owners – the Brodsky Organization, GFP Real Estate, and the Sorgente Group - began renovations in 2023, after announcing they would convert it into high-end condos.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

The only way in which ordinary shares can become ADRs is if someone were to convert ADRs to ordinaries and create room.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Plus, I forget how to convert Pakistani currency into dollars.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

Three days after the executive order, the White House implemented the order through National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, which converts the fiction into machinery.

From Salon Jul. 23, 2026

Nesma El-Areef, senior marketing and sales manager at Uflex Egypt, which converts plastic waste into new packaging materials, said demand for the company's recycled products rose by up to 40 percent.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

“Into FY27/FY28, the market appears to be underestimating the cost opportunity as replatforming converts scale into operating leverage,” says analyst Liam Robertson.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

"We found that something as simple as the type of chewing gum used alongside beetroot juice can influence how effectively the body converts dietary nitrate into compounds that help lower blood pressure."

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

We return to the tree, where Rani converts the sheet I sleep on into a kind of sling and bundles our few things into it.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

Our Brooklyn apartment is in a converted warehouse with high ceilings and a roof deck.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Husband-and-wife team Andy and Kelly Smíšek opened the two-acre facility in 2016 in a home they converted into a makeshift kennel.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

The comments, made at the end of last season when McInnes was in charge of Hearts, related to a stoppage-time spot-kick for handball that was converted by Kelechi Iheanacho.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

A camera connected to a light microscope records the fossils, and the color information is converted into an average gray scale value.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

He worked late at night in a small room we’d converted to a study at the rear of our apartment—a crowded, book-strewn bunker I referred to lovingly as the Hole.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

The profit that oil refineries make from converting crude into usable fuels is the “crack spread.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

Marian images are common in viceregal art—the Virgin played an important role in converting peoples—and many simply copy traditional European depictions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

The South American side have been the most clinical, converting 18% of their chances, while the opposite is true of European champions Spain.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

This means light must pass through layers of nerve fibres before reaching the photoreceptors – specialised cells responsible for detecting light and converting that into a nerve impulse to send to the brain.

From Science Daily Jul. 11, 2026

The canvas hood had been folded back because of the mild weather, converting the car into a magnificent open tourer.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl




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