adapter
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A faulty adapter might blast 20 volts into a device expecting five volts, overwhelming its circuitry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Last week, he was comfortable admitting to BBC Scotland that he had packed a European plug adapter for his summer trip to the US.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
"Just as a USB adapter allows devices with different connectors to work together, Floquet magnons could bridge frequencies that would otherwise remain incompatible."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
The most practical option was an old-school corded phone and a cellular-to-landline adapter.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
The power adapter was there but no laptop.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
There’s a joke on TikTok that one person in every group is the “digital camera friend,” wrangling everyone for photos and handling SD cards and adapters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
If not, adapters are available for less than £10.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
Customers purchase what they need a la carte — a combination of jacket hoses, nozzles, valves and adapters that, when assembled, vastly increases the water flow rate from a homeowner’s outdoor faucet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Whatever your opinions of that series — and there are plenty — it laid out the duo’s strengths as adapters and their weaknesses as creators of original material.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
The Greeks, he remembered regretfully, were clever adapters.
From Kenny by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens
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