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generator

Definition for generator

noun as in engine converting energy

Strong matches

alternator, dynamo

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Example Sentences

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Svyrydenko said critical infrastructure facilities have already been reconnected, and water supply is being maintained using generators.

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She’s surrounded by partners and associates whose magnificently inane names sound like they were pulled from an Aaron Spelling character generator.

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He urged residents to buy generators and said the utility doesn’t reimburse customers for spoiled food and other losses if it believes the blackouts were required by “an act of God.”

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He added that cuts to renewable energy subsidies and tariffs on imported steel - which raise the cost of building new power generators - have also pushed up prices.

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She also received a stake in the business, which proposed using solar generators to reduce the cost of the energy-intensive computer calculations needed to generate or "mine" the digital currency Bitcoin.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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