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plug

[pluhg] / plʌg /






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In this moment of AI anxiety, his most original idea is offering a vision of the future that doesn’t make us want to pull the plug on every data center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

I hesitate to plug them because it’s already virtually impossible to get reservations there, but Pizzeria Sei has absolutely the best pizza you can get west of New York City.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

But attention is likely to focus more on how private capital, not public finances, might help plug the shortfall.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

For a time, Quaid and Savoie were traveling back and forth between Los Angeles and Nashville, but following the 2025 California wildfires, they decided to pull the plug on life on the West Coast.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Carefully, firmly, he connected the cable and the plug in his hands and the immediate forceful blow-up startled him, although he had expected it.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

New stations have more plugs on average to cut down on wait time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

"We can't have baths... all the plugs have been removed to resist temptation," said Scantlebury.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Professor Nohria plugs the talent agency game into a basic diagram.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Others are placed onto table frames fixed to the ocean floor, and yet others are mounted onto plugs, screwed into a three-hole "cookie" and planted onto the reef.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Then she plugs her headphones into the computer and does her homework.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins

After falling out of favor, shares of power stocks got plugged in on Tuesday on a big deal between Constellation Energy and Google.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The analysts plugged those prompts into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Muse in three different states: New Jersey, New York and Minnesota.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

"We've shown that when tissue-resident macrophages don't have EP2 on their surfaces anymore or when that receptor is plugged up by a drug, this decline doesn't happen."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

It argued that going private would provide insulation from volatile quarterly earnings releases, or that Mattel could be plugged into another company’s established distribution flywheel, avoiding the costly effort of building one from scratch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

There was no power, even though both the TV and the Atari were plugged into electrical outlets set into the floor.

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

They’ve been plugging away on this policy for years, and they’re finally seeing results.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

As the city moves to ban wells and new state laws require buffer zones and plugging idle wells, “the relationship between residential communities and oil drilling operators has been reset,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Faster charging can address one of the main challenges of EVs compared with gasoline-powered cars: that plugging in still takes longer than refueling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

"Our colleagues are plugging gaps, doing the impossible, working too many hours to back-fill, are experiencing burnout and ill health and have their private lives upended," Mr Kelly said.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

I wonder if the people she's been plugging us to all day either know or care.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins


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