1
as in batch
a number of things considered as a unit
a battery of tests to determine the cause of the medical disorder
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as in group
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit
a battery of specialists worked on the problem until it was fixed
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Recent Examples of battery
Their new research addresses the long-standing dendrite problem in lithium-metal batteries.
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Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
The raid halted construction of the EV battery plant, The Associated Press reported.
—Holly Yan, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Agents focused their operation on an adjacent plant that’s still under construction at which Hyundai has partnered with LG Energy Solution to produce batteries that power EVs.
—Russ Bynum, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
The server, a capricious machine with a battery of hard drives, occupied a soundproof box in his home studio.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2025
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Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
The raid halted construction of the EV battery plant, The Associated Press reported.
—Holly Yan, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Agents focused their operation on an adjacent plant that’s still under construction at which Hyundai has partnered with LG Energy Solution to produce batteries that power EVs.
—Russ Bynum, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
The server, a capricious machine with a battery of hard drives, occupied a soundproof box in his home studio.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for battery
Noun
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The new batch will join nearly 8,300 other operational Starlink satellites up there, continuing to flesh out the biggest spacecraft network ever assembled.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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For your pet's batch, leave out onions, garlic, peppercorn, salt and spices.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That dropped to just two teens in that age group in 2024.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
7 Sep. 2025
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Energy Foundation China, the nonprofit group mentioned by Lucci, is one such major funder of domestic environmental nonprofit organizations, disbursing tens of millions of dollars each year to support American activists while operating under the oversight of the CCP.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Sep. 2025
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The organization also is partnering with a nonprofit developer to create a cluster of 21 shipping containers converted into little houses in Eastpointe, just outside Detroit.—
Felice J. Freyer,
Miami Herald,
3 Sep. 2025
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Cervical cancer screenings allow physicians to spot and remove cancerous or even precancerous lesions (clusters of odd-looking cells that could one day become cancer).—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Ten small and medium-sized countries are in talks to form a new trade grouping in November.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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For the next two decades, the unlikely duo secretly sleuthed together on an array of front-page crimes happening in real time — missing Yale student Annie Le; newlywed George Smith murdered on a cruise ship; missing 5-year-old Noah Thomas, who disappeared in a rural town in Appalachian Virginia.—
Natasha Stoynoff,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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The Chinese government runs an array of grantmaking programs to fund and promote research aligned with its national interests.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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While other members came and went, Davies and Hodgson remained the band's core and key creative ingredients for over a decade.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Sep. 2025
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Bettencourt performed with Osbourne at the show, and his band Extreme honored him with a medley of his hits at a concert in Zürich last month.—
Daniela Avila,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Keep scrolling for fall decor picks from the Magnolia collection at Target, starting at $5.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Sep. 2025
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One thing that is in your control is having a trustworthy collection of travel bags.—
Rachel Trujillo,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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Storm Breaker, donning black and white patterning, is probably the least attractive of the bunch (to me, anyway).—
Mitch Wallace,
Forbes.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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But the new film, set in 1986, finds the Warrens dealing with a bunch of personal matters, as well as a Pennsylvania family haunted by a mirror cursed with malevolent spirits.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Battery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battery. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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