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quench

[kwench] / kwɛntʃ /




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No, this project, which comes with an estimated price tag of $5 billion to $20 billion a year, wouldn’t quench specific heat waves or fires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

This means the rain forecast in the coming days is likely to do very little to quench the parched earth.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

"It's mainly to quench our thirst, and we have to give our animals water too," Andras, a student, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Key questions for officials, Picazo said, will be determining how much MMA remains in the tank “and how to quench whatever is remaining.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

Water from a rain puddle or a mountain stream would quench his thirst and cool his hot dry throat.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

Berkeley Lab scientists have developed an approach to prevent quenches altogether, rather than simply trying to manage them after they occur.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024

There is, legitimately, no item on earth that quenches and refreshes like good ol' water — especially when you've eaten something especially heavy or you've accidentally eaten the equivalent of your body weight in candy.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2023

The river, which cascades from the Rockies down to the deserts of the Southwest, quenches the thirst of 40 million people in the U.S. and Mexico and sustains a $15 billion-a-year agricultural industry.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022

Foremilk quenches the infant’s thirst, whereas hindmilk satisfies the infant’s appetite.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

It quenches all the eagerness to hear in the three faces, each in its own degree.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

I sipped on this drink during a midday walk and it kept me cool, quenched and satisfied.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025

Other quenched galaxies in the early universe have been far more massive, but Webb's improved sensitivity allows smaller and fainter galaxies to be observed and analysed.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024

And, finally in Cleveland, he kept teams competitive despite financial limitations and nearly quenched a championship drought in 2016 on the way to becoming the winningest manager in the club’s 123-year history.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

“I just was taken by all the people who were thirsty in the comic book — without being quenched — mouth open, sweat pouring, very tired, very depleted. I abstracted that,” Roland says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

His yearning, in a sense, was too powerful to be quenched by human contact.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

The results revealed a 20% suppression of high-energy particles associated with jet quenching.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

"When that happens, triplets easily fizzle out before they ever meet. Molecules must be close enough for energy to transfer but separated enough to prevent quenching of excitons."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026

It manufactures neodymium magnets by pouring liquid alloy onto a rotating, cooled disk, then rapidly quenching and pulverizing it to freeze the delicate crystalline structure at a microscopic scale before it can grow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The primary solution to resolve this crisis would’ve been to pump a neutralizing agent into the problem tank, quenching it and making it no longer explosive.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

I hooked my foot around the ladder rung and leaned deep into the cistern, quenching the shingle in the water.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss


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