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circuit

[sur-kit] / ˈsɜr kɪt /


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Daiwa lifts its 2026-2028 EPS estimates for the Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuit substrates and printed circuit boards by 20%-42%.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

He said musicians at the venue described "smoke from a circuit breaker near the stage followed by the power going out and an explosion".

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

After struggling with bone bruising in his arm that limited him to playing mostly on the lower-tier Challenger circuit in recent years, Fery is finally healthy and playing consistently.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

She said it was the sixth year they had undertaken the task at the circuit, which had the largest race weekend attendance in history for a Formula 1 event this year.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

I know he is the organizer, the keystone of this Resistance circuit.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Spa is held by many as one of the all-time great circuits.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

A safe cable contains wires that enable communication with the phone’s battery management system, which monitors temperature, tracks voltage and detects short circuits.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

Absorbed students carefully threaded wires into junction boxes to make circuits connected to lights, bulbs flickering on one by one to signal a job well done.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

Most of the cases we excluded are decided by just one justice, each of whom oversees one or more federal circuits and has the power to refer filings to the wider court.

From Salon Jul. 3, 2026

Deep freeze, armchair, film tapes, circuits, beds, and all like skeletons thrown in a cluttered mound deep under.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

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

On the sixth day southward they were right at the heels of the Shawnees, and circuited their camp at the Blue Licks itself, only forty miles from the fort.

From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

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

The digestive organs not having enough to occupy them, were tempted to digest themselves, or at least to have their function disturbed by the short circuiting of nervous energy looking for something to do.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)




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