transfer
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"Investment that merely expands distribution networks or assembles products using Chinese parts could increase imports and deepen dependence. Approvals should therefore prioritise technology transfer, local value addition, domestic component production and exports from India."
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
A smart entrepreneur might even create a student transfer portal to recruit talented students from other universities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
There was investment in the transfer window with the likes of England international Georgia Stanway and Spain full-back Ona Batlle arriving, as well as the talented, young Germany forward Lisa Baum.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Any coach who says “I don’t want to know” where a transfer lives to escape accountability might want to start realizing an entire program can go down when they abdicate responsibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
It didn’t take him long to gulp them down, lick the fork one last time, and then transfer the fork to his other hand so he could grab the doorknob.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
In all cases though, the transfers included significant sell-on and buy-back clauses, which is part of a strategy by United to generate more revenue from player sales.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Echoing the findings of an earlier evaluation also ordered by Carter, Nardello & Co. found “a reporting environment that relies on numerous databases, self-reported information, manual data transfers, and decentralized reporting practices.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
A portion of the oil is exiting via ship-to-ship transfers, for example, in which shuttle tankers take on the most hazardous part of the journey and then move it to ships headed to Asian refiners.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
One is quantum teleportation, a process that transfers quantum information from one location to another.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
A few weeks ago I might have found that question offensive, but now I spend too much time with Candor transfers to be surprised by tactlessness.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
She survived two execution attempts on Wednesday, and was transferred to a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Skinner wanted to focus on being a top safety even though he started high school at Chaminade playing quarterback, transferred to Notre Dame as a sophomore and played quarterback for the junior varsity team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Students who transferred to other schools had cited a lack of Greek life as a reason for leaving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
More than 70% of the crude oil which passed through the strait in August was transferred from these "shuttle tankers" onto other vessels in the Gulf of Oman, Kpler said.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The wife of the early god was then transferred to Zeus.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
But with many tankers turning off tracking systems or transferring cargoes between ships to minimize threats, other analysts are circumspect about just how much shipping has recovered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The new measurement approach could also contribute to new quantum communication protocols, methods for transferring multi-photon quantum entangled states, and new forms of measurement-based quantum computing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
The guilty pleas came shortly after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation barring third-party brokers from advertising, selling or transferring tee-time reservations at publicly owned golf courses without the written consent of the course operator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Like an AI agent taking and transferring data when it should not have, OpenAI said.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
The night before, Joyce, Harry, Rose, Mike, Polly, and Harry Junior had stayed up late, transferring the peanuts to paper sacks, planning to sell them to the race fans.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer - Introductory
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Physical Science - Energy - Introductory
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