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turbine

[tur-bin, -bahyn] / ˈtɜr bɪn, -baɪn /


NOUN
rotary engine
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The windswept community is home to historic mill houses and a new low-income housing complex right next to where the turbine components will be stacked and assembled.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

She had recently put up a new chicken shed and wind turbine - diversification projects she believed would not have been possible had a stricter planning regime been in place.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

By 2022 China was supplying nearly 60% of wind turbines in a global market once monopolized by the West, and by 2024 the world’s top four turbine manufacturers were all Chinese.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

But is the steam turbine “fired” by the fossil fuel?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Off the agency’s long hallways are laboratories filled with airplane wreckage: a mangled piece of an engine turbine, a problematic piece of a helicopter rotor.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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