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"Germanium is already a workhorse material for advanced semiconductor technologies, so by showing it can also become superconducting under controlled growth conditions there's now potential for scalable, foundry-ready quantum devices."

Boeing BA 0.15%increase; green up pointing triangle said it is making more of its workhorse 737 MAX jets with fewer restrictions—despite snags in another aircraft program that could spell trouble ahead.

These monsters have supplanted coal generators as the workhorses of the U.S. power grid because they are more efficient, less polluting and more flexible.

But the system is not reusable, unlike SpaceX's Falcon 9 workhorse.

What Snell hasn’t done, however, is prove himself to be a workhorse.