discharge
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On Monday, Wangchuk appealed to doctors to discharge him so he could join the march but was not allowed.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
This created a form of plasma called a glow discharge.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
He served as a photographer in Germany during the Korean War and joined his father at Disney following his 1952 discharge from the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
But the doctors haven't given him a discharge date.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
Mark Fossie was busted to PFC, shipped back to a hospital in the States, and two months later received a medical discharge.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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France has reduced output at its nuclear reactors, because the rivers where it discharges water used to cool the reactors are already too hot.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Thames Water - which serves about 16 million customers, mostly across London and parts of southern England - has faced heavy criticism in recent years over its performance, sewage discharges, and pipe leaks.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Now the department is ending the most-generous repayment plan and has extinguished hopes for sweeping discharges of debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
Earlier work by the team showed that corona discharges could be a significant source of these atmospheric cleansing agents within forest canopies.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026
The doctor discharges me three days later, on the condition I return daily to have my dressings changed and breathing monitored.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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Four servicemembers were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals and have since been discharged, according to Centcom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The experience put him in the intensive care unit for nine days, after which he was discharged to a rehabilitation facility.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
In an exclusive interview, Michelle Dyson said patients were "too often diagnosed, discharged and sent home with little more than a leaflet".
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
The changes include repayment plans that could push up monthly bills and require more payments before debt can be discharged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
We could see the wide Channel & even Boston-Town, & — my God, I do not jest—there, drawing up, was a Sloop & a Schooner, discharged Boats with Parliament’s Marines to protect their seized Animals.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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Sherwin said firefighters could hear ammunition discharging in the distance as they continued to fight the flames.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
France's main energy provider also shut down two nuclear reactors on Thursday as an environmental protection measure to avoid discharging too much hot water into already warming rivers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
And unlike Michael Drejka, she brandished her gun without discharging it.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026
DC Water violated the Clean Water Act, which prohibits discharging pollutants into navigable waters, the lawsuit in Washington, D.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
He spent the rest of the night out in the cold, violently discharging the contents of his gastrointestinal tract.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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