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generator

[jen-uh-ray-ter] / ˈdʒɛn əˌreɪ tər /
NOUN
engine converting energy
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Shemrai plans to buy a diesel-powered generator for her new home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The mansion is equipped with a whole-home generator, private well, and septic system.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

The centre, according to the documents, would include five gas turbines, a steam generator, and another two gas turbines on standby.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

When a radio frequency generator sends a signal into the capacitor, the resulting electromagnetic field interacts with the plasma filament.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

Uriah said that he would come here early to turn on the generator, and sure enough, when I touch my finger to the elevator button, it glows through my fingernail.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

The company said its backup diesel generators run only for five minute tests each week and, thanks to abatement efforts, produce "about 44 decibels of sound, quieter than a soft conversation three feet away."

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

In Kyiv, generators hum in the light-starved streets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

“In 2022 you had all these wind investments, and other power generators starved for capital,” while at that time Altius, under Dalton’s direction, “was buying up assets left and right.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

What specific types of nuclear energy generators are safe enough to use?

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2026

They’d finally come upon the section of the bunker that used the raving generators above: a line of fights along the ceiling illuminated the passage.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner


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