pump
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It sounds like a crackpot invention advertised on the back of an old comic book: DIY solar panels you plug into a standard wall outlet to pump electricity into your home.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Nasdaq is changing its procedures to put SpaceX in funds based on it and priming the pump to do the same with Anthropic and OpenAI, which have historically burned through cash.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
The switch, however, has left U.S. gasoline and diesel reserves below multiyear averages just as summer demand for both is gearing up, which could result in higher prices at the pump.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
For all the pain at the pump, energy remains a relatively low 2.4% of consumers’ expenditures, up from 2% at the start of the year.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
In Italy workmen used a kind of pump, which worked more or less like a giant syringe, to raise water out of wells and canals.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing pump
Engineering - Introductory
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