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electrify

[ih-lek-truh-fahy] / ɪˈlɛk trəˌfaɪ /


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Meanwhile, there’s a growing business case for companies in Europe to electrify their industrial heat, according to a recent report from McKinsey—particularly as fossil fuel prices remain volatile.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Lawmakers are also moving this year to boost heat pump adoption — proposing to streamline permitting, and make it easier to electrify homes.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 1, 2026

Costs rise quickly when homeowners electrify more than just heating, he said.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 1, 2026

Beta Technologies rallied 16% after Amazon.com disclosed a stake in the aerospace start-up, which is working to electrify aircrafts.

From Barron's Feb. 11, 2026

She wouldn’t even mind learning how to electrify things.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

With the garish gusto of a WWE wrestler, Tucker’s entrance as the ringleader of the show “Stamptown” electrifies the stage.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Death hangs over the record and there are many references to the steady march of time, but for Ms. Orton the inevitability of the end electrifies the present.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

Electrospinning is a technique which electrifies droplets of liquid to form fibres from plastics.

From Science Daily Feb. 23, 2024

Fleet manager Sean Clifton has 50 additional Ford vans and 20 Maxus vans on order, but will need more soon as Asda electrifies its 1,300 delivery vans.

From Reuters Apr. 13, 2023

The honesty electrifies Helmuth, the way the British announce their own losses to the Germans.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Utilities have known for decades that unused lines can become energized from nearby electrified equipment through the induction process.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

It said that 52 percent of its passenger car sales in Europe are now electrified vehicles -- fully electric, plug-in hybrids and non-plug-in hybrids -- up from 43.8 percent in the first half of 2025.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Morishita recalls having been electrified by a performance she had seen by Mikiko Matsuyama, who founded the company in 1948.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

She sauntered on the stage with electrified green and purple hair and Vivienne Westwood-style chic to perform a cover of the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

One of you was electrified by the power you wielded for the ninety seconds it took to say the words, the power to make Vinny truly happy.

From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead

The audience were left "practically speechless" by the "electrifying" show, added Mondo Sonoro's Daniel Caballero, external, who said West appeared focused, committed and "determined to regain his sanity and his passion".

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

The past few months have been the most electrifying time for math since the invention of the calculator.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Sunil, 27, who came to the protest site for the first time on Saturday to "experience the atmosphere", said it was "truly electrifying, especially after the minister's resignation".

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

“In the Mouth of Madness” ponders just how powerful media — and our relationship to it — can be, and Neill gives an electrifying turn as a man caught up in a myth made real.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

It’s a wild, electrifying feeling, and once I get a taste of it, I’m hooked.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen




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