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plant

[plant, plahnt] / plænt, plɑnt /


NOUN
factory and its buildings, equipment
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Ford UK's Lisa Brankin acknowledges 9,000 engines over five to seven years is a far cry from the 90,000 per year the plant used to produce – but she insists every little helps.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

At a plant in Sherman, Texas, roughly the size of a football field, Cisco competitor Coherent makes lasers for iPhones — and for data centers.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

“If China wanted to come in, and open a plant to build their cars here, I’d be OK with it. Japan does it—but they hire our people,” Trump said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Meta’s website states that when a user asks Meta AI about what’s in front of them, like a menu or plant, the camera gets activated so the AI assistant can help answer the question.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

I wanted to plant myself in front of each plate glass window to study the displays of merchandise like other girls did.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

To be sure, coal-based power plants still continue to generate 70% of India's electricity on average because they run on a higher load factor, or for more hours than solar or wind.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

He held particular scorn for the flat-earthers, who he thought were plants to discredit genuine research about extraterrestrial technology.

From Slate Sep. 22, 2026

Car plants are often the major employer in their area and support local supply chains, so job losses can hit particularly hard.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

Dodgers fans walk past vibrant plants behind photos of former Dodgerss outside center field at Dodger Stadium on Friday.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 2026

Everywhere I see the results of Tūtū’s love and care for her plants and respect for the soils they grow in.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

She sat on the windowsill, occasionally going over to peek out through the front door, but the big red flag she had planted advertising the showing wasn’t drawing much attention.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

On 8,000 acres in Michigan, Ford’s researchers planted 300 soybean varieties and searched for ways to incorporate the harvest into automobiles.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

Others are placed onto table frames fixed to the ocean floor, and yet others are mounted onto plugs, screwed into a three-hole "cookie" and planted onto the reef.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

"Ms Meek and the other adults there planted seeds in me that I probably couldn't see at the time, but they became part of the foundation I grew from," he said.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

“He’s also granted free lifetime claw trimming. And he planted a billion new trees to replace the ones you burned in the last war.”

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

He’s betting that as more people understand what’s at stake, they will keep showing up — even if they are planting trees for a future he’ll never see.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

Re-Oak California needs donated acorns, volunteer planters and propagators, and money — especially if Crouch is to reach his dream goal of planting 20,000 trees a year.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

Instead of planting berry bushes out in the open, as is often done in the U.S., it decided to grow them in greenhouses using water systems that couldn’t be contaminated by nearby farms.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

They are doing this in a range of ways from planting trees and growing vegetables, to leading bug hunts and rediscovering nature.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

Late one night, I saw Murray and a few other folks who looked like they had leprosy planting flowers along Duval Street.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm




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