How to Use OEM in a Sentence

OEM

noun
  • It will be placed next to the right-hand alt key on most keyboards, with the placement varying by OEM and across different markets.
    Tom Warren, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But the fact that this deal was made with an OEM like Stellantis is still significant.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Aside from emergency situations, the OEM tests the outdoor warning system on the first Wednesday of every month at noon.
    Allie Kelly, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • The power steering on the Benz required a little more thought than its brakes, but eventually remained pretty much intact with some OEM available parts.
    New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Were the parts original equipment by the manufacturer (OEM) or generic?
    Daniel Bortz, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Earlier this year, auto OEM’s granted huge concessions to labor in an attempt to catch up wages that had flatlined for over a decade during a period of high inflation.
    Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Supervision is mostly design with Chinese OEM cars — which will be impacted by the import tariffs.
    Hakyung Kim,fred Imbert, CNBC, 31 July 2024
  • All local channels will be interrupted if a tornado warning is issued, according to the OEM.
    Allie Kelly, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • Extending the range of jet skis is a big part of the aftermarket and even original equipment manufacturer (OEM) market for these watercraft.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Hackers took control of a car’s OEM corporate network by reverse engineering a car’s transmission control unit to infiltrate the network.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2022
  • These record electrical input and heat output data in real time, with measurements transmitted automatically to OEM every 10 seconds.
    Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 2 July 2024
  • This is called original equipment manufacturer (OEM) telematics.
    Aliaksandr Kuushynau, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Nothing confirmed yet, but that would generate huge excitement as Android’s biggest OEM gets its biggest security update yet.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024

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