circuit
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Good Good Golf will no longer serve as the title sponsor for an upcoming PGA Tour tournament in Texas, the circuit announced.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
New neuron formation operates within a larger hippocampal circuit that stores episodic memories along with their emotional significance, and molecular disruptions appeared throughout that system.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Though they became fast friends, and ran into each other on the showcase circuit throughout their senior year, who knows what would have happened if the 2007 draft had played out differently?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 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
A functional circuit of genes was switched on and off, as if operated by a common spool or a master switch.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
Gold is prized in electronic circuits because it conducts electricity well and does not corrode.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 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
Not when that half-ton has to be a mass of condensers, circuits, relays, and vacuum cells that can handle practically any psychological reaction known to humans.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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For centuries, even millennia, people learned songs through the oral tradition, which has been short circuited by the advent of electronic media and inexpensive print communications, in just the last century.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2016
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
The spark-plugs may be short circuited by cracked insulation or carbon and oil deposits around the electrode.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
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
So when we had breathed us a little the circuiting was begun, Ephraim Yeates and Jennifer going toward the lower end of the sink, and the Catawba and I in the opposite direction.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
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