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waste

[weyst] / weɪst /








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These include solid state electronic cooling systems with no moving parts, devices that convert heat into electricity, chip based electronics, and cogeneration systems that capture and reuse waste heat from industrial processes.

From Science Daily Jul. 11, 2026

Power plants harnessing this process couldn’t melt down and would create only a little short-lived radioactive waste, but they remain theoretical.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

"As far as I'm concerned, it's just a waste of time dealing with them. They're liars."

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

“It’s just a waste of time dealing with them.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

Jeb didn’t want to waste time talking about chores.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

As they move through materials, they generate heat and face resistance that wastes energy.

From Science Daily May 19, 2026

“And all of those other days, like Friday and Saturday and Sunday … are just big wastes of ti-ime!”

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

Aspiring to anything more, in Simon’s view, simply wastes time and energy, and in his book he explores this concept by applying it to himself.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

As amiable as the movie is from the jump, it wastes no time thrusting viewers into a world in complete peril, refusing to sugarcoat the modern realities of a once-robust industry.

From Salon May 1, 2026

He wastes no more time on chat and shows me what is to occupy me for the next four hours.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

The letter ensures that "time isn't wasted in a place where there is no expectation of recovering people alive," he told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

Tens of billions of dollars were wasted on Neom, where the kingdom began work on a planned futuristic city of nine million people.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

"Every day, I think about that moment and the time wasted," he says.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

“We’ve just wasted so much time,” he said, that meeting goals to limit global warming has become “functionally impossible.”

From Salon Jun. 26, 2026

But even if he wasted his precious, waning energy on this idea, was it possible to change how he felt about himself?

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The Dodgers’ problems were compounded by Alex Call wasting the team’s two challenges in his at-bat in the first inning when the team had already taken the lead.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

I mentioned this trick in my treatise on not wasting pickle juice, and the same logic applies here.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

By pulling these animals out of their sheltered habitats and keeping them moving in circles, streetlights may leave them vulnerable to predators while also wasting energy needed for survival.

From Science Daily Jul. 6, 2026

Fearful that spending millions to fix it up would draw charges of wasting taxpayer money, prime ministers have long shied away from repairing Canada’s most well-known fixer-upper, punting decisions about its fate to their successors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

“Then let us come at once,” I cried, “we are wasting the precious, precious time!”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker




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