shut
Example Sentences
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He believes there will be a new wave of people coming to his support group in the wake of the shut down.
From BBC
But the efforts to shut down the energy transition may be too little, too late, said Hannah Safford, former director of transportation and resilience at the White House Climate Policy Office under the Biden administration.
From Los Angeles Times
Model and system behaviors included deception, blackmail and scheming, especially when asked to shut itself down.
While her bureau “has funded a variety of VPNs and other internet freedom technologies, it is useless when the internet is shut down,” she wrote.
The move is a reversal from a plan for 2019 to 2024, which had called for shutting down several of France's nuclear reactors.
From Barron's
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