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grid

[grid] / grɪd /
NOUN
gridiron
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NOUN
conducting plate
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The smallest reactors may or may not be grid connected.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

But it becomes much more challenging as the state gets closer to its 2045 target, when the entire grid must be clean.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Mountains of debris are a common sight, and issues with the power grid make blackouts a regular occurrence.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

The company’s data centers this spring already accounted for three-quarters of the 2 gigawatts of data center power that was being generated behind-the-meter, or outside of the U.S. electrical grid.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Laila wished she could see her face, but Mariam was in burqa—they both were— and all she could see was the glitter of her eyes through the grid.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

The CMEs cause beautiful auroras, and they can also affect life on Earth by causing geomagnetic storms that can knock down power grids and affect weather and communication satellites.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

These massive sites, which are proliferating across the country, produce loud noise and pollution, rely on enormous amounts of water and electricity, tax power grids and inflate utility bills.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

Meanwhile, Europe has been in the grips of its own heat wave—with far less air conditioning to temper it—that has closed schools and strained electrical grids.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

More elaborate designs, including hatched bands, grids, and diamond-shaped motifs, also showed evidence of rotation, translation, repetition, and "embedding," i.e., the ability to build hierarchical levels of signs within the same surface.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

Then he remembered that the grids stood for five kilometers each, and when he counted the numbers of grids between the lake and Brannock’s he came up with about sixteen squares.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen




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