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harness

[hahr-nis] / ˈhɑr nɪs /
NOUN
gear for controlling an animal
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He inherits a race transformed by Graham Platner’s abrupt exit—and must convince voters he can harness the oysterman’s populist appeal without carrying his baggage.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Dey De Guzman helps Sabine Hoppner attach her climbing harness at a community event Saturday in Pasadena..

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

"If we can harness these pathways, we may be able to design nutritional strategies that promote healthy aging at the molecular level."

From Science Daily Jul. 18, 2026

Read: Can Walmart help the Fed harness real-time U.S. economic data?

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

She’s smiling, and as usual, Ziggy is beside her wearing his harness, all ready to go.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks

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

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

This limits event risk and harnesses time decay, the term for how options lose value each day closer to expiration.

From Barron's Apr. 8, 2026

Back in the shillelagh days, there were no fancy polymer harnesses, no auto thrusters, and certainly no external monitors.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

"The mining sector is dying out in Poland and you have to change something in your life," he says, harnessed and ready to take the elevator to the top of a turbine.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

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

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

Scandalous as that sounds, there’s actually something less supernatural and more terrestrial playing out here: a power struggle between the Catholic Church and influencer priests who’ve successfully harnessed the internet’s algorithms.

From Slate Jun. 8, 2026

The lessons from transplants about how the immune system can be harnessed to control and get rid of cancer helped pave the way for newer treatments.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 19, 2026

His eyes glittered darkly as he took in the scene - the Athena Parthenos harnessed to its team of pegasi, Nico with his Stygian sword drawn, Coach Hedge with his baseball bat.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 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

It is being recorded as part of work harnessing hidden microphones, cameras and artificial intelligence to reveal the secrets of species living deep in the rainforest and help protect them.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

In March, Mayor Karen Bass announced a plan to repair and replace up to 60,000 streetlights by harnessing solar power technology, so they’d no longer be reliant on the copper wire that keeps getting stolen.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 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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