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harness

[hahr-nis] / ˈhɑr nɪs /
NOUN
gear for controlling an animal
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Upcoming evaluations will check the wiring harness connections required to integrate payloads.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

Zuckerberg in his Monday essay wrote of a world where “open-source” models allow anyone and everyone to harness AI’s power and bend it to their own purposes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

This mandate would harness the market discipline of thousands of private-sector players, closely examining the basis of any rating of private credit.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

But there was power in those images — and Saar knew just how to harness it.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

Letting out a bellow that all but busted my eardrums and came close to scaring the mares out of their harness, he leaped down from the buckboard and took off after the coons.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

The three men were wearing harnesses that appear to be attached to a security rope.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2026

The technology harnesses that pressure to push seawater through reverse-osmosis membranes.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

With their cables and harnesses, they looked like carousel animals.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Glinting in the night, halfway up a hill in Japan, the greenhouse-like "Ku-An" test lab is lit by electricity harnessed from 1,500 wooden boxes of soil and compost.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

Edwards has harnessed the language of European modernism to tell a singularly, painfully American story.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Which food molecules could be harnessed to develop new drugs, or new foods?

From Science Daily Jun. 17, 2026

People are tribal, but I think they are basically good, and that good can be harnessed.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

We’ve been left behind to age, harnessed by earth’s unyielding gravity.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

His truck, selling hot dogs, empanadas and fried shrimp, runs on rechargeable batteries as part of a city pilot aimed at cutting harmful noise and air pollution by harnessing electric energy.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

Soon, Brady’s portrait, harnessing the new technology of mass-produced photographic printing, was everywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

One example of successfully harnessing a social media audience is Ilona Maher, the US rugby player whose popularity soared during the 2024 Paris Olympics.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

Clinicians are gathering iris scans, voice recordings and harnessing AI to crunch through and curate masses of data to spot signs of change that may be early indicators of future problems.

From BBC May 22, 2026

Huge finlike wind wings stuck up along their lengths, harnessing the breezes to help move the lumbering ships and their scrap loads of nickel, copper, iron, and steel.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi




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