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transfer

[trans-fur, trans-fer, trans-fer] / trænsˈfɜr, ˈtræns fər, ˈtræns fər /




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In exchange, the developer agreed to transfer to the National Park Service a similarly valued piece of property located elsewhere in California.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

In exchange, Pori agreed to transfer to the National Park Service a similarly valued piece of property located elsewhere in California.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

“This worry shouldn’t transfer to the general public right now, mainly because there is nothing for you to do and your risk is so low.”

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

Environmental inspectors who rushed to two fires discovered 318 tonnes of toxic industrial dust that had been stored for months in a chrome factory, AlbChrome, with no transfer contracts for its treatment or safe disposal.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Yet when they called his name to the transfer office, he lost no time gathering his things and getting in the van to leave.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

BBC Verify has analysed satellite imagery which appears to show these ship-to-ship transfers, seemingly more protected from Iranian attack, taking place off the coast of the Omani port city, Sohar.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

At the time of the visit, the manager was overseeing multiple transfers from other locations including 51 residents leaving another building “due to flooding.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The region’s major crude producers have ramped up supplies through alternative pipelines, ports and ship-to-ship transfers to navigate disruptions due to the Iran conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Some of those that have remained in the familiar waters near Malaysia have moved north from an area known as the Eastern Outer Port Limits, where ship-to-ship transfers of Iranian oil have normally taken place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

For some reason, instead of looking for transfers, we were going to sit in a bus.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

The Sheriff’s Department typically houses mentally ill prisoners at the Twin Towers, but Magaña’s family claims he was not transferred to a specialized unit within the jail that deals with more challenging cases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Tankers have been conducting so-called shuttle runs, carrying crude from Gulf oil terminals through the strait to vessels waiting outside, where it is transferred for onward delivery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

"But shortly before the scheduled execution, he suffered a heart attack and was transferred to hospital," said Mai Sato, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

After arriving at the airport in Kenya's capital, he was transferred by a relative to a hospital in the city where he died, and was buried on Tuesday in line with health safety guidelines.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

They are transferred from their prison cells to a much larger, invisible cage.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

By Mr. Brady’s third year at the school, embittered about getting only three snaps per practice, he considered transferring to the University of California but decided to stick it out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

After graduating from the CHP Academy in 2010, he was assigned to San Jose and later worked in Hayward and Fresno before transferring to the Visalia region in 2019, according to the CHP.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 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

Like an AI agent taking and transferring data when it should not have, OpenAI said.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

I knew where the spot was—the part where the operator said that she was transferring the call to Fire and Rescue and the part where Epiphany Fire and Rescue comes on.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg




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