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Meanwhile, some organizations that rely heavily on diesel are looking to wean themselves off reliance on the fuel to prevent future price fluctuations from having a major impact.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

A major risk for the four leading hyperscalers is that competing labs will develop their own computing infrastructure and wean themselves off existing clouds, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

The availability of cheap Chinese electric vehicles and solar panels also gives more options to countries trying to wean themselves off fossil-fuel imports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

The next minute, another says: "I'm firmly of the view we must not doomscroll our way through leaders - we have to wean ourselves off it."

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

They are trying to slowly wean me off the stuff.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Jen's job was set up to help what young people themselves call the "Covid weans" - youngsters who started the pandemic as children and emerged as teenagers.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022

Over the next several decades, however, the energy pull on the grid will increase significantly, as will demand from other electric sources as the country weans itself off of fossil fuels.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2022

The sooner the world weans itself off carbon-emitting forms of energy, the better chance human beings have of preventing widespread suffering.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021

But as China weans its economy off a reliance on manufacturing and heavy industry, analysts have found the Li Keqiang index needs additional measures.

From Reuters ● Mar. 11, 2019

The Lady said she’d raised six weans of her own and five o’ them lads, eight o’ someone else’s lads wouldn’t be much different.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Born into a nominally liberated time for women, our Gen X girlhood was a specific kind of confusing: Yes, we were weaned on “Free to Be You and Me.”

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

"I think that it's time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support," he told CBS News's 60 Minutes.

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

Three decades after they became Britain's biggest bands, interest in both is still huge - among their original fans and a new generation who were weaned on their songs.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

As January drew to a close, I weaned myself off the motivational videos.

From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2026

Soft boiled foods could be fed to small children, permitting the kids to be weaned earlier and their mothers to produce babies at shorter birth intervals.

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

A longer-term goal is making Japan’s economy more secure by weaning it off Chinese-centered supply chains for essential materials such as critical minerals, and honing Japan’s technological edge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

In two-week-old mice, before weaning, dendritic spines were spread relatively evenly across the neuron.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026

Since his death, Oli's parents have been campaigning for better safety measures around weaning babies onto solid food and emergency first aid provision for nurseries.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025

In the longer term, the deal won’t do anything to stop China’s strategic goal of weaning itself off U.S. soybeans, Suderman said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

Others, weaning belches, lodged in his chest and caused massive heartburn.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole