recharge
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Over the last several years, work crews there have been restoring natural floodplains along rivers and creeks, building recharge basins, and routing floodwater to farm fields where it can soak into the land.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
The max charging rate of 150 kW pencils out to a 10%-80% recharge in 28 minutes, under ideal conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Rain watered crops, and soaked in to recharge the groundwater that hydrated the city — something that can’t happen now, when something like 40% of the city is covered over, impermeable to rain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
These cables, sometimes included with your car from the manufacturer, allow you to draw a charge from another battery or vehicle and recharge your battery enough to turn the starter.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
It'll cut an hour off my total recharge time.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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That includes “extended range electric vehicles,” battery-powered cars that have an onboard generator, running on gas, that recharges batteries on the fly.
From Barron's ● Dec. 15, 2025
It runs 15-30 minutes on a full battery, depending on the speed, and recharges in 45 minutes to about 3 hours, depending on your charger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
Regenerative braking in EVs, which recharges the battery, does not involve friction.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025
“You’re going to have more short-term runoff leading to more floods and less snowpack that recharges the groundwater and the groundwater is ultimately what helps maintain stream flows.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
While cruising on the surface a submarine recharges her storage batteries to give her motive power when she is submerged.
From Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
"It recharged her and made her feel better," McVey said.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
"It stores sunlight, and it can be recharged."
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026
Thermal batteries, such as the one being developed by Cache Energy, store heat instead of electricity, and can be recharged and discharged over and over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
With the battery emptying itself within about 11 seconds of full power, it is emptying and being recharged constantly around a lap.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
The Special who’d instructed her had explained that it needed as much surface area in the sun as possible while it recharged.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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Giuseppe Capanna, a product safety engineer at the campaigning charity Electrical Safety First, said lithium batteries carry enormous amounts of energy, which is handy for recharging devices.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
American Airlines last week prohibited passengers from recharging power banks using in-flight outlets, matching the policies of Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Other agencies are recharging aquifers at dozens of sites across California and are building more facilities to replenish groundwater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
The distance that electric trucks can travel without recharging can be drastically cut when towing heavy loads or operating in less ideal conditions, such as cold weather.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 29, 2025
"My genius powers are recharging," Max declares as she brushes the crumbs from her lap.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
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