wattage

Example Sentences

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Not surprisingly, Stoltz’s interest—and especially those wild wattage numbers—has piqued the curiosity of cycling bosses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

Roberts won a lead actress Oscar in 2001 for playing a crusading real-life legal clerk in “Erin Brockovich,” a role that perfectly combined her acting strengths and star wattage.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

Endurance is the key metric for cyclors, who need to be able to consistently produce a high wattage during the races themselves and maintain their form across 10 weeks.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2024

Yet, with some of the National Football League’s most famous names, it carried a certain celebrity wattage.

From New York Times • May 31, 2024

Flames and rods and tubes and circles, not to say ordinary bulbous bulbs of every size and wattage and color, dangled like fruit from an ecstatic entanglement of wire vines.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen