plant
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Completed in 1923, the power plant closed in 2008, leaving the main turbine hall of its beaux-arts building abandoned—until last year, when it became a place to play padel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
"All plant groups show the same effect, which is a strong indication that it was the result of an outside force."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
She is banking on the revival of the nearby cement plant to save her community.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Dairy co-operative First Milk, which has a large cheese-processing plant in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, is trying to address the situation with all 700 of its farmers across the UK - including 200 in west Wales.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
I feel like there’s a part of me that’s hollow, like I’m dried up, like Mr. Harris’s plant that just continues to refuse all of my efforts to make it whole again.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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The researchers completed 15,000 measurements of pollen and spores from plants that lived before, during, and after the extinction.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
The company, which employs at least 20,000 people and operates an estimated 30 processing plants, reported $6 billion in revenue in 2022.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Building a new kind of product, after all, requires billions in investment in new plants, new engineering, new or retrained workers—for a product that companies had seen no signal from the public that it wanted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
He thought the cost quoted by Jersey Water was an "exaggeration" and that the panel's lower-cost calculations were based on retro-fitting existing water treatment plants rather than building a new one.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Some plants had so few leaves it was hard to remember what they used to be.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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Not the big trees — someone else planted those — but everything else, like the ground cover and smaller plants, I did.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Kazaryan planted his orchard in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union when farmland was distributed to private owners.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
He highlighted that City Hall had planted 640,000 trees and was empowering communities to transform areas through the mayor's £12m Green Roots Fund.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
In Operation Mincemeat, the British planted a corpse with fake top-secret documents implying an Allied invasion of Greece and Sardinia to provide cover for their Sicily campaign.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
A two-reel camera on spindly legs was planted in the middle of the street.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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The president, John McLenaghan, welcomed the plan, including a measure designed to simplify the process of accessing grants and information to facilitate planting.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Despite the findings, the researchers emphasize that people should continue planting flowers to support pollinators.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
That includes the walls, which can flex to instantly turn small offices into larger conference rooms, the finish of a large conference table and planting dozens of trees on the property.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Along the highway from Ankara airport to the city centre, municipal workers have been planting flowers and installing giant billboards to shield views of dilapidated homes and poorer neighbourhoods.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
When they had finished planting, as though summoned, rain sprinkled down in a mist.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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