discharge
Example Sentences
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Last week, the California Coastkeeper Alliance filed a petition asking the State Water Resources Control Board to throw out the facility’s water discharge permit.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026
"Similar to conventional batteries, quantum batteries charge, store and discharge energy. But while everyday batteries rely on chemical reactions, quantum batteries leverage properties of quantum mechanics," Associate Professor Hutchison said.
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026
Tossici-Bolt was given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £20,000, while Smith-Connor was handed a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay more than £9,000 in costs.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026
“It’s a big issue. Once you have to discharge a vessel of five or six thousand cars, you occupy a lot of land.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
It was so secret that our real “occupational specialty” was not even mentioned on our discharge papers.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
