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Recent Examples of transformer
When the Biden administration’s energy efficiency regulation for distribution transformers threatened to shutter a Cleveland Cliffs plant in Butler County, lawmakers from both parties, the United Steel Workers union and Gov. Josh Shapiro fought back.
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Christen Smith | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Jan. 2025
Scientists have had some successes pushing transformers past these limits, but those increasingly look like short-term fixes.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
An electrical transformer blew out late in the first half of Davidson Academy’s home game against Goodpasture.
—Tyler Palmateer, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
Recently, several transformers in our neighborhood were replaced by our provider, Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, due to sporadic outages.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 Jan. 2025
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Christen Smith | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Jan. 2025
Scientists have had some successes pushing transformers past these limits, but those increasingly look like short-term fixes.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
An electrical transformer blew out late in the first half of Davidson Academy’s home game against Goodpasture.
—Tyler Palmateer, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
Recently, several transformers in our neighborhood were replaced by our provider, Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, due to sporadic outages.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transformer
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Instead of relying on the vehicle’s own CCU converter, these units convert AC to DC electricity outside the vehicle.—
LEW SICHELMAN,
Miami Herald,
25 Feb. 2025
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There’s also no 12V battery with all of the traditional systems being powered through a solid-state DC-DC converter from the high-voltage battery to provide 12V. That means the Pentastar probably also doesn’t have an alternator, another cost and weight savings.—
Sam Abuelsamid,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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There are plenty of prediction engines and algorithms that can function with modest computational resources and readily available data, but since the advent of modern AI, the focus has shifted from the mere acceptability of predictions to achieving high accuracy at scale.—
Suvarna Krishnan,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Cardozo’s brilliant, forward-thinking opinions demonstrated how state courts could serve as laboratories of law and engines of social progress.—
Peter Martin,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, Russian logisticians are equally short of motor transport—and have taken to resupplying combat formations via donkey.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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By Alice Park February 24, 2025 1:41 PM EST There is still no cure for Parkinson’s disease, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new deep brain stimulator that could benefit patients with the motor condition.—
Alice Park,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
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Pettersen admitted that the trip was challenging—think about the sheer amount of newborn gear that babies need with bottles, sound machines, travel cribs, and more.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
26 Feb. 2025
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To fund his war machine, Putin has been throwing the living room furniture into the furnace, cannibalizing productive sectors and relying on unsustainable, record deficit spending.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian,
TIME,
26 Feb. 2025
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Hyundai Rotem specializes in producing railway equipment and defense products.—
Amala Balakrishner,
CNBC,
4 Mar. 2025
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Rehabilitating the town’s fire station and apparatus bays, which would include structural updates, enhancing equipment and securing storage for fire rescue vehicles.—
Abigail Hasebroock,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Transformer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transformer. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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