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Recent Examples of harnessing
Yet research and development of harnessing waves and tides for electricity have lagged behind other alternative forms of energy.
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Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
The company revealed the details in a surprise video on Thursday about its work with AMD on Amethyst, a project aimed at harnessing AI approaches to enhance gaming graphics.
—PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
Other experts will focus on topics like using hip-hop to promote social-emotional learning in classrooms, harnessing hip-hop’s emphasis on play through experimentation and bold expression, teaching dance techniques and using hip-hop for community building.
—Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2025
Successful women are focused on harnessing untapped energy and talent to make a profit and drive revenue.
—Misty L. Heggeness, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
But sure enough, the artist born Frederick John Philip Gibson enlisted Amy Taylor and company for his drum n’ bass-inflected latest single, harnessing the group’s energy and then exploding it with Gesaffelstein-like sirens and typically all-over-the-place vocal triggers.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
The chemistries to do this are waiting out there to be discovered, and increasingly, researchers are harnessing AI and machine learning to do the work of sorting through the mountain of data.
—Andrew Moseman, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2025
Among them is harnessing what is sometimes referred to as clean heat, which means fulfilling the supply chain’s thermal energy needs with renewable sources such as wind and solar.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
Castor oil has long been associated with traditional beauty and wellness, but innovators are now harnessing it to engineer the next generation of sustainable products.
—Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
The company revealed the details in a surprise video on Thursday about its work with AMD on Amethyst, a project aimed at harnessing AI approaches to enhance gaming graphics.
—PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
Other experts will focus on topics like using hip-hop to promote social-emotional learning in classrooms, harnessing hip-hop’s emphasis on play through experimentation and bold expression, teaching dance techniques and using hip-hop for community building.
—Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2025
Successful women are focused on harnessing untapped energy and talent to make a profit and drive revenue.
—Misty L. Heggeness, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
But sure enough, the artist born Frederick John Philip Gibson enlisted Amy Taylor and company for his drum n’ bass-inflected latest single, harnessing the group’s energy and then exploding it with Gesaffelstein-like sirens and typically all-over-the-place vocal triggers.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
The chemistries to do this are waiting out there to be discovered, and increasingly, researchers are harnessing AI and machine learning to do the work of sorting through the mountain of data.
—Andrew Moseman, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2025
Among them is harnessing what is sometimes referred to as clean heat, which means fulfilling the supply chain’s thermal energy needs with renewable sources such as wind and solar.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
Castor oil has long been associated with traditional beauty and wellness, but innovators are now harnessing it to engineer the next generation of sustainable products.
—Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for harnessing
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Commercial company HawkEye 360 collects and processes radio frequency data from its constellation of satellites using advanced algorithms.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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The share of customers using delivery specifically, as opposed to picking up takeout or going to a drive-through, more than doubled from 2019 to 2024.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
27 Oct. 2025
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To review or object to instances where our partners assert a legitimate interest in utilizing your data, please visit our vendors page.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
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Here's how to take the survey Taylor Advising released a new survey for the community, officers, and department staff utilizing the platform Survey Monkey.—
Jade Jackson,
IndyStar,
23 Oct. 2025
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The narrative of the obscenely rich exploiting every link in the chain to amass more wealth — at the expense of shareholders, government banks and the people of India — was the old story.—
Snigdha Poonam,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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Yet even these entities will adapt, either by exploiting visa loopholes, relying more heavily on student-to-H-1B conversions, or shifting toward the L-1 visa category, which remains unaffected by the new fee.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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But of course, applying it to humanity is far more fraught.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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This year, to celebrate 40 years of Jordan Brand and the Air Jordan 1, the brand went even further, applying a meticulous makeover to the already refined silhouette.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
22 Oct. 2025
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During the past decade, McGrath has brought her boundary-breaking makeup to the masses, employing color and democratizing a level of glamour only previously achieved by her legendary runway looks.—
Tracee Ellis Ross,
Glamour,
27 Oct. 2025
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Drawing on more than a century of savoir faire while employing some of the best contemporary creatives in the business, Van Cleef & Arpels began creating a series of jaw-dropping modern automatons known as Extraordinary Objects in 2017.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Harnessing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harnessing. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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