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combustion

[kuhm-buhs-chuhn] / kəmˈbʌs tʃən /


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Launched in 2019, the Taycan was supposed to underscore the Stuttgart-based group's embarkment on a major shift away from combustion engines.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Connecting the combustion chamber to a turbine and converting its intense combustion into electricity created an additional engineering challenge.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

“The product that would motivate someone to move from ICE to an EV hasn’t existed until R2,” Scaringe said, referring to an acronym for cars with internal combustion engines.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Major hyperscalers and more than a dozen of neocloud companies and AI labs that once might have looked at natural-gas powered and other combustion technologies now choose Bloom as a “superior power solution,” he added.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

“This-here is a internal combustion engine,” he said.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Insulation adds to the price tag, so the unit itself often acts as an amplifier for the whirring machinery and tiny combustions happening inside.

From Seattle Times Oct. 10, 2022

The 2019 exhibition calendar was unusually crammed with heavily hyped shows, not to mention floating suspense and sudden combustions of fear and loathing.

From Washington Post Dec. 9, 2019

New York signs a pair of lesser talents like, say, Jimmy Butler and Kemba Walker, clawing its way toward a semi-interesting mediocrity before lapsing into another of its periodic combustions.

From The New Yorker Feb. 5, 2019

“The exit in a blaze of glory”, he says of other rockers’ early combustions, “is bullshit.”

From Economist Sep. 27, 2016

Finding that very many of the products of these combustions had the properties of acids, he gave to the new "air" the name oxygen, which means the acid-producer.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir




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