wind
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The average selling price of its wind turbines rose to 1.22 million euros a megawatt from 1.01 million euros, driven by a higher level of large-scale order intake in the Asia-Pacific region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
The cost of power from new solar farms fell by 90% between 2010 and 2024, and from onshore wind by 70%, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
That has led to speculation the new Congress will seek to wind in tech firms' construction drive, which could put thousands of jobs at risk.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
No team has finished 0-17, but the Chargers could wind up there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
She raced up the slope and rounded the boulder into the teeth of an icy north wind.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Her senses of taste and smell have rebounded, and she gets less winded on hikes with her grandchildren.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
And surveying it too are Downing Street and the Treasury, who are bruised and winded after another one of those days.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
She got winded just climbing the stairs to her bedroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
Why does a brief jog leave some people winded while others seem to glide along with ease?
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
Very helpful, Annabeth thought, but she was too winded to say it.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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The new disclosures have raised questions about the Nvidia leader’s lobbying against export controls prohibiting sales of powerful AI chips within China and the company’s efforts to keep chips it sells from winding up there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
You can feel it in how he shoots the house’s severely winding stairs — dangerous for Leslie and Martin to navigate — from occasionally vertiginous angles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Newsom, who is term limited, is winding down his final months in office.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Yet Wall Street’s main focus was on the potential for a very unpopular war to start winding down.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
The pull had led her through winding side streets rank with the stink of waste and rotting food until she’d found refuge in one particularly small alley filled with old crates she could hide behind.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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Yet Purdy wound up missing eight games in 2025 after suffering a toe injury.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
SpaceX reportedly wound up buying thousands of Cybertrucks when sales disappointed and inventory accumulated, providing some valuable insight into how Musk uses his portfolio of companies to prop each other up.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026
The self-inflicted wound, though, failed to discourage Villa as they refused to lie down and accept a Barcelona victory.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
He wound up fleeing to Spain, then in the grip of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, and spent the rest of his life in Iberian exile.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
Cesium 137 rained down more than a thousand miles away in Scotland, where it covered fields and wound up being concentrated in the flesh of livestock.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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