transfer
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To perform calculations reliably, the processor and memory must interact closely enough to transfer and manipulate quantum states with high precision.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
A couple of weeks before Carrick spoke, another club source told BBC Sport that United should be judged when the transfer window closed.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
“I don’t know how you would transfer $26 million. That seems a little bit absurd.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Don’t expect to identify a No. 1 team until the sit-out period ends on Christmas day and teams gain access to their full group of transfer students.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
Just getting to school for my first day of ninth grade was a whole new odyssey, involving ninety minutes of nerve-pummeling travel on two different city bus routes as well as a transfer downtown.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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After the traumatic week Paraguay has endured, the stall owner says she would rather "not sell than accept bank transfers."
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
Bypass pipelines, tanker transfers and emergency reserve releases have helped keep oil flowing during the war but can’t fully offset prolonged shipping disruptions, with prices still at around $100 a barrel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Spending the money on it doesn’t even remove it from your balance sheet, it just transfers it from cash to a physical possession.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
She also made electronic transfers into accounts she controlled and falsified financial entries in an effort to hide her tracks, according to prosecutors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
I wince as my weight transfers onto my bad leg.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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The other eight councils said the items moved out of their collections had been donated, transferred to other museums, or disposed of.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
After making the leap to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Lendeborg transferred to Michigan, a powerhouse shelling out millions in NIL money to build a championship roster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
They may also help researchers better understand how energy is transferred during some of the universe's most extreme gravitational interactions.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
Nartatez was booked into the Crescenta Valley Station Jail and later transferred to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, where she was being held on $35,000 bail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026
Early on, Tamara transferred eight of the 586th’s finest pilots to other regiments to try to ease the friction.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Other technical challenges include transferring fuel to Starship in orbit -- a requirement for any journey to the Moon or Mars.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
Electricity is a more efficient way of transferring energy than fossil-fuel molecules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
The Board added that delays in approving the entry of supplies "exacerbated the consequences of a foreseeable humanitarian challenge" and delayed the start of decommissioning weapons and transferring Hamas authority to a transitional government.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
"Our strategy is different. Instead of transferring the information to an auxiliary qubit, we seek to obtain it from a signal produced by the qubit under study itself," says the researcher.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Why go to all the trouble of transferring the boys up north only to ship them back in a month?
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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