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[trans-mit, tranz-] / trænsˈmɪt, trænz- /


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But the western blacklegged tick, known as the deer tick in most of the country, is common in the state’s chaparral, grasslands and woods, and can transmit Lyme disease, babesiosis and other pathogens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Linkages between financial institutions, derivatives, securitization and market structures create multiple paths that will rapidly transmit shocks, making it difficult to quarantine problems.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

"Secondly, greys have squirrel pox - it doesn't affect them but they transmit it to red squirrels and it's fatal for them. It's a horrible disease and causes them ulcers and blindness."

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

It uses components to transmit data and places them close to the chips to increase efficiency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

If either factor failed—if reproduction failed to produce variants or if heredity failed to transmit the variations—then nature would be mired in a ditch, the cogwheels of evolution jammed.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The station transmits internet traffic through Poland to countries including Ukraine, and uses SpaceX systems that provide connectivity via Starlink terminals.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The shipping route, which handles five percent of global maritime trade, will cut the number of daily transmits from 36 to 34 from September 3, and to 32 later in the month.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Markets in turn are guessing how the Fed responds to incoming data; the better the guess, the more efficiently policy transmits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 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

He tells me to be careful, and that he will be monitoring anything that transmits through my microphone.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

“Don’t trust U.S. Navy and don’t use south corridor at all and don’t put your life in danger,” a radio message transmitted on a public shipping channel and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 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

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday that the proposal had been transmitted to U.S. officials through mediators.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Littlejohns also points out that multiple data streams can be transmitted down the same channel to create more capacity.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

However, those tropical African crops could never be transmitted across South Africa’s Fish River, beyond which they were stopped by Mediterranean conditions to which they were not adapted.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

The lawsuit alleges people wearing the smart glasses were unwittingly transmitting data to Meta whenever they used Meta AI by saying “Hey Meta,” or sometimes accidentally when adjusting the glasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The component found transmitting a signal to China was part of a K3 Scout drone boat made by Kraken Technology, based in Fareham, England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

And because Aedes aegypti feeds almost exclusively on humans, the insects are great at transmitting disease from one person to the next.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

In place of the old system, Wanner said, have arisen “new ways of transmitting advantage that are beginning to assert themselves.”

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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