saps
Example Sentences
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Drought also saps hydropower output, driving natural-gas and coal burning, something that happened in China during the last El Niño.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
The fight for new capital saps investment from other sectors, while meeting increasingly grandiose ambitions requires more computing power, which in turn demands more energy, which stokes energy price increases, and so on.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
But doing so saps its sensitivity, as doubling a cylinder’s resonant frequency would require shrinking it to one-eighth its original volume.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 20, 2024
All of which saps any pride and joy the conference might feel about its resurgence in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
That’s what Charles Chiltington thought about sentimental saps like Kyle Keeley.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
