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harness

[hahr-nis] / ˈhɑr nɪs /
NOUN
gear for controlling an animal
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To do so safely, Blair suggested collaring and keeping cats close on a well-fitted harness.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

Young men need to celebrate and harness strength.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

She ended the show as she always does - attached to a harness, ascending into the rafters of the O2 and disappearing.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

"He used it as a harness to lift several old people," she said.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

And in the harness were four majestic lamassus.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

While labs like OpenAI and Anthropic do offer their own model harnesses for enterprise customers, Pan argues that businesses in regulated sectors like banking and government should build their own to keep their workflows private.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

That harnesses a network of roughly 200 task forces comprising over 4,000 personnel from federal, state and local agencies.

From Salon Jul. 23, 2026

The three men were wearing harnesses that appear to be attached to a security rope.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2026

The technology harnesses that pressure to push seawater through reverse-osmosis membranes.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

Then we heard the jingling of harnesses and the fast clopping of horses’ hoofs.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

From its early days, the store, called JapanLA, harnessed the internet to promote its products, using MySpace to connect with what was at the time a niche community: Los Angeles fans of kawaii culture.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

Today, professional operators have developed guided, client-friendly methods to experience the landscape, including harnessed rope swings off cliffs, walking highlines across canyons, and navigating cliff-top terrain in specialized 4×4 jeeps.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Winston Churchill harnessed the power of radio, but thought television a vulgar diversion.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

"The mining sector is dying out in Poland and you have to change something in your life," he says, harnessed and ready to take the elevator to the top of a turbine.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

We harnessed the team and set off on the trail to Skwentna.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

But since Aug. 9, when they began harnessing the power of Ryonex, every single one of their meme carousels has racked up tens of thousands of likes.

From Slate Aug. 28, 2026

One example of successfully harnessing a social media audience is Ilona Maher, the US rugby player whose popularity soared during the 2024 Paris Olympics.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

It is being recorded as part of work harnessing hidden microphones, cameras and artificial intelligence to reveal the secrets of species living deep in the rainforest and help protect them.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

I set up this new session by harnessing the same sycophantic, people-pleasing tendencies that can make AI hallucinate in the first place.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

Were the spirits making sounds, harnessing magnetism, or conducting electricity?

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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