unplug
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"You can unplug from the Bitcoin network any time but signing a GPU colocation lease for 10 or 20 years means steady revenue and a commitment to keep the infrastructure up for the tenants."
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
On Thursday, two members of Congress unveiled a bipartisan bill requiring makers of the most powerful AI models to build in a kill switch -- a way to unplug a model outright.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
To unplug meaningfully requires something meaningful to plug into.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
“These people, when I unplug them ... they’re all going to Seattle where the mayor will welcome them,” Pratt told Haskell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
I unplug my phone from the charger and find that I have zero messages from Bo.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
Before S.G.V. takes a shower, Vargas unplugs her IV tubes, flushes them with saline and tapes a plastic sheet over her chest to keep water from getting in and infecting the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
But are there consequences if everyone unplugs from the system?
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2022
Day 5: Pete Best stops by, unplugs toilet.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2021
At one point, someone unplugs a hard drive.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2015
We all sit there blinking as she unplugs and sits down.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
She claimed she was off work and home alone—that she had unplugged her phone and gone to bed.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
The chatbot was never fully deployed and was unplugged after three months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
A liquefaction train, which cools the gas, is like a giant refrigerator, but unlike an unplugged fridge at home, restoring it could take weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
In 2020, economist Paul Milgrom unplugged the phone when the Nobel committee called - in the middle of the night - to tell him he had won the Nobel for economics.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
I helped Grammy check each cottage refrigerator to make sure it was empty, unplugged, and left open so it doesn’t stink in the spring.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
But beyond the material hardships, many describe a similar feeling: the impossibility of unplugging from their problems.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Going offline and unplugging each week reconnects us with something ancient.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Abandoning a cult is relatively easy compared to unplugging from a hive; although deprogramming can be an arduous process, a hive mind hollows out everything but our skins.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025
I work at a major social-media company and read your column about Gen Z unplugging while I was scrolling Instagram during my morning commute.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2025
I was calling because the rest of my friends had taken to unplugging their phones after ten P.M.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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