transmit
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Although the researchers have demonstrated that the plasma filament can transmit radio waves, its ability to receive signals and operate across a broad range of frequencies still needs to be tested.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
“As long as measles continues to transmit in the country, it will find its way into these exquisitely vulnerable communities and cause massive outbreaks.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The circuits transmit signals via four antennas on the box for several hundred yards, on frequencies the unit believes Russia is currently using.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
"Pneumonic plague can transmit from person to person and that is why there is the concern around this," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Patients with yellow fever were isolated in rooms with screens on the windows so that mosquitoes couldn’t feed on their infected blood and then transmit the disease to healthy individuals.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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Daniel Senna, a 31-year-old patient at the Maugeri Hospital, transmits his pain level on a screen attached to the robot's chest.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
"However, Channel 4 ensures any version it transmits of acquired programmes adheres to the Ofcom Broadcasting Code."
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
The system places a nonlinear waveguide between two optical filters, each of which transmits a different portion of the light spectrum.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
The internet transmits more data in a single second than it did in an entire month in the early 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
He tells me to be careful, and that he will be monitoring anything that transmits through my microphone.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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Ebola is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids and causes severe haemorrhagic fever.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
The recordings were transmitted to Earth, where researchers could monitor changes in heart function throughout the missions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
The California Department of Public Health reports that West Nile virus activity in the state, which is transmitted from infected mosquitoes, has reached a five-year high, with over 250 cases to date and 19 fatalities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
An infected animal can pass rabies to another animal or to a person through its bite, but that’s not the only way it can be transmitted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
No matter where you were on the ship, you felt the power of the Olympic's twenty-nine boilers transmitted upward through the strakes of the hull.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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The South later resumed border loudspeaker broadcasts for the first time in six years, including K-pop and international news, while the North began transmitting strange, eerie sounds across the frontier, unsettling South Korean residents.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
The pair had flown out from Glasgow Airport at 16:17 and stopped transmitting at 16:37, a few miles north east of the village of Drymen near Stirling.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
In March 2000, as the bubble burst, shares of companies in the business of transmitting data, or networking, plummeted too.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Air defenses’ large-scale use of spoofing, or transmitting fake GPS signals to send drones off course, can disorient civilian air traffic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But on contact with the organic phosphorus insecticides, the protective enzyme is destroyed, and as the quantity of the enzyme is reduced that of the transmitting chemical builds up.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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