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[jen-uh-reyt] / ˈdʒɛn əˌreɪt /


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It could generate $360 million per year, with about $80 million of that earmarked yearly for Tijuana River improvements.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

The findings suggest that powerful solar eruptions may have helped generate strong greenhouse gases in Earth's early atmosphere.

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

Trump has said the agreement will generate profit within two or three years.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

Suno, based in Cambridge, Mass., allows users to enter text prompts to generate songs from descriptors, like genres, types of instruments and moods.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Since the 1913 procession, they had tried lobbying, meeting with President Wilson, and holding additional parades, but nothing seemed to generate political support for women’s suffrage.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

The experiment generates enormous quantities of information, enough to fill the hard drive of an average laptop within minutes.

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

It couldn’t be learned whether Lambda is required to provide Nvidia with a share of the revenue it generates at the Texas site.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

The third is that a typical annuity generates a fixed income.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

Several organizers said the recognition and opportunities for connection that the festival brings are just as meaningful as whatever financial support it generates.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

The importance of an intellectual change simply cannot be measured by the amount of controversy it generates.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Snyder rented out the house between 2022 and 2025 while he remained in Boston to get his masters degree, which not only covered his entire mortgage payment but also generated a profit each month.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

Over 99% of the electricity generated in Nepal comes from hydropower, and Tamang and Ghale had been working at a major production site helping to build the Upper Trishuli 3B Hydropower Project.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

And we saw a meaningful improvement in the revenue generated for that real estate.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Amazon generated more than $68 billion in revenue from advertising alone last year; its total revenue in 2025 reached nearly $717 billion.

From Barron's Aug. 31, 2026

The plane's high-tech cameras generated a bonanza of intelligence, like nothing the CIA had ever seen.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

The lawsuit states that Amazon's methods were spurred because "it was unhappy about how much revenue its advertising auctions were generating".

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

In 2009, an Iridium Communications satellite hit a nonfunctional Russian communications satellite, generating around 1,800 pieces of debris at least 10 centimeters in size.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

The telescope will be generating about 1.3 terabytes of data a day, "which means you basically can't download the data to anybody's laptop," he said.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

They were unable to track down any biological matches to the victim’s mother at the time, and in 2024, they issued a news release seeking the public’s help in generating additional leads.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

Lyra was so close to Iorek that she could feel a trembling in him like a great dynamo, generating mighty anbaric forces.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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