circuit
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These receptors were already known for their role in stress, but the new findings suggest they can also quiet a pain-producing circuit and reduce chronic neuropathic pain caused by nerve injury.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Sir Nick Faldo says LIV golfers seeking a return to the DP World Tour may have to "eat a bit of humble pie" before regaining eligibility for the European-based circuit.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Both campaigns sued in state circuit court, where a judge on Wednesday ruled for Hoskins in both cases.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
You don’t want a low-quality battery that might catch fire, or a compromised or modified circuit board that bypasses normal security guards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
My understanding is that the reception committee who prepared the landing field is not connected to Julie’s prearranged contacts in Ormaie—more accurately they are all different members of the same circuit.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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Brain imaging revealed changes in circuits associated with emotion, raising the possibility that the technology could support mood regulation and psychological resilience.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Future studies will examine the brain circuits that send information to orexin neurons and receive signals from them.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
As of Thursday, two circuits have affirmed the government’s position and six opposed it, teeing up what experts call an inevitable Supreme Court challenge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
These systems can etch miniscule circuits onto silicon to create microchips that power AI as well as all sorts of everyday electronics.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
How can circuits be busy if most phones in Southern California have run out of juice?
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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It is a sleek pod — half spaceship, half motherboard, with glass floors and a ceiling circuited with green neon tubes — on the eighth floor of a building in the bustling Shibuya district.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2023
She shows no bitterness about the turn of events that short circuited her diplomatic trajectory.
From Washington Times ● May 31, 2014
Their invention, Roominate, offers girls the experience of building a working circuited dollhouse in pastel colors.
From Time ● Nov. 27, 2013
Wouldn’t that have short- circuited, say, the return of Steve Jobs to Apple?
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 30, 2011
They monkeyed with the mechanism, short circuited the battery, and jammed the gauge so I couldn't tell when my power was gone.
From Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, or, the Speediest Car on the Road by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
Her thoughts spiraled: “Is he short circuiting? I thought…Is this a stroke?…Has he been drugged?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
The explosion in Karachi was the result of short circuiting inside a room where the electric system is controlled, according to Nasir Aftab, who is deputy-inspector general for the city’s police.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
Barbare spent much of her time circuiting the provinces, trying to help her feckless husband and then her hapless son salvage catastrophic careers.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
After being transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he spent the next four months circuiting a nexus of prisons and detention centers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2015
As the trouble was really nothing more than the short circuiting of a wire, along with weak batteries, it was easy enough for Jack to explain it to her and how to remedy it.
From The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach In Quest of the Runaways by Margaret Penrose
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