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harness

[hahr-nis] / ˈhɑr nɪs /
NOUN
gear for controlling an animal
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Used to doing everything for himself, he unclipped his harness and crawled to a waiting ground robot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

When he got back to his shelter and tore it open to find a harness with instructions scribbled on it and a phone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

"That's when the idea of a wind turbine came to mind. Why not harness the wind? So we salvaged parts from the rubble."

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

“This appointment reinforces LA28’s commitment to harness the unparalleled creativity, cultural influence and storytelling power of the entertainment capital of the world,” an announcement from the Olympic organizers said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

There was a faint jingle of harness, the whisper of a blade drawn from its sheath.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

An initiative co-founded by McCormick, Climate TRACE, harnesses the technology to track emissions around the planet and build an inventory of the pollutants.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

That harnesses a network of roughly 200 task forces comprising over 4,000 personnel from federal, state and local agencies.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

That’s why scientists in Arizona are strapping volunteers into harnesses and lowering them onto wet floors: to find what kinds of surfaces are safest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Along with the harnesses, hard hats and hi-vis, the safety kit now includes suncream and plenty of water bottles.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

This is what those boxes contain: 200 crates of ammunition, 164 cartons of artillery harnesses, and 96 carts to carry ammunition.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

“All of the humanity, history, despair, and triumph that constitutes Elvis’ identity was stolen and is stored on servers and harnessed by Suno to make massive amounts of money,” the Presley complaint said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Prof Alan Woodward, of the University of Surrey, told the BBC there was a risk open-source models might end up in the wrong hands, but they could also be harnessed for cyber-defence.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

A mechanism that allows healthy tissue to recover from devastating damage could potentially be harnessed to improve healing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Today, professional operators have developed guided, client-friendly methods to experience the landscape, including harnessed rope swings off cliffs, walking highlines across canyons, and navigating cliff-top terrain in specialized 4×4 jeeps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

From the age of three it has been planed and polished, pared down, harnessed wholly to the task of storytelling.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

For now, the findings provide a more detailed picture of how psilocybin changes the brain and reveal a potential strategy for harnessing its effects on neural connections without relying on the psychedelic experience itself.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

"A lot do go off to bigger cities like London or Manchester but I think it's just a matter of harnessing their talents and having opportunities to platform them."

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

But since Aug. 9, when they began harnessing the power of Ryonex, every single one of their meme carousels has racked up tens of thousands of likes.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

But harnessing the power of AI could put us in a position to answer them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The problem was harnessing the power, sustaining it, and manipulating it for an assault on the nucleus.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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