transfer
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Emergency services, including the police, paramedics and civil defence teams rushed to the scene to extinguish the fire, transfer the injured to hospitals and secure the site, where specialist teams remain.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
To perform calculations reliably, the processor and memory must interact closely enough to transfer and manipulate quantum states with high precision.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
“I don’t know how you would transfer $26 million. That seems a little bit absurd.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Don’t expect to identify a No. 1 team until the sit-out period ends on Christmas day and teams gain access to their full group of transfer students.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
We have to make the transfer before I’m out of the handoff zone.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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Getting oil through the Strait of Hormuz now involves “more vessels, ship-to-ship transfers, higher transportation costs and persistent security threats,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
Both Jude and Jobe have returned to St Andrew's since their transfers.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
In December 2025, Megaspeed said Bloomberg's reporting "contains misleading information and incorrect insinuations, including suggestions that we may have been involved in illegal chip transfers".
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
She also made electronic transfers into accounts she controlled and falsified financial entries in an effort to hide her tracks, according to prosecutors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
The Dauntless-born initiates and the transfers were separated during stage one, but we will be training together from now on.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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He did, however, preserve a selection of skulls, some of which were transferred to the United Kingdom.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
The other eight councils said the items moved out of their collections had been donated, transferred to other museums, or disposed of.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Eventually they were transferred to St. Augustine, Fla., and then on to Liberia, the newly created country set up by the American Colonization Society as a homeland for free black people and emancipated slaves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Nartatez was booked into the Crescenta Valley Station Jail and later transferred to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, where she was being held on $35,000 bail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026
The saboteurs' lawyer knew their best defense was to have the case transferred to a civil court.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Platforms may be reefed in place on a case-by-case basis by removing their upper portions, with oil companies sharing some of the cost savings with the state and transferring some of the long-term liability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2026
Other technical challenges include transferring fuel to Starship in orbit -- a requirement for any journey to the Moon or Mars.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
Electricity is a more efficient way of transferring energy than fossil-fuel molecules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
"Our strategy is different. Instead of transferring the information to an auxiliary qubit, we seek to obtain it from a signal produced by the qubit under study itself," says the researcher.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Apparently that’s how the government rewarded good work, by transferring you from one place to another.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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