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grid

[grid] / grɪd /
NOUN
gridiron
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NOUN
conducting plate
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Much of the requested $103 million reflects capital spending already under way to safeguard the grid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

On a windy hillside about an hour's drive northwest of Istanbul, the Catalca power plant was one of Turkey's first large-scale wind farms and has been feeding electricity into the grid for 18 years.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

At the end of the formation lap, every single car pitted for dry-weather slick tyres bar Hamilton, who took to the grid on his own.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Some of the notable stock reaction was coming from power producers more exposed to Texas’s grid operator, ERCOT.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

“Travel or something? Go off the grid and meet new people?”

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

I sat there, sketching grids on a legal pad, trying to figure out how this new type of publication would work.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026

While solar and wind power are being produced in growing quantities, ageing grids and a lack of storage sometimes mean those sources cannot be used as efficiently as they could be.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

In addition to drawing from public grids, many AI data centers are directly incorporating battery-energy-storage systems to deal with fluctuations in power demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Such hypothetical benefits include progress in healthcare, like the development of bespoke treatments for illnesses and improved disease detection, tailored education and legal advice and making more efficient power grids and batteries.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

The old man stands beneath the projection screen and whisks the tip of a billiards cue through the grids.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr


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