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switch

[swich] / swɪtʃ /




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“If you move an operator to a remote station, they can easily switch from machine to machine,” said Jaime Mineart, Caterpillar’s chief technology officer.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

In April last year, the government passed an emergency bill to take control of British Steel amid reports the then-owner Jingye was planning to switch off two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

You can’t flip a switch and apply the ABCs all at once.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

The restaurant is also available for private-dining bookings with a room that can instantly tint its glass, hiding diners with the flip of a switch.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

To take a cue from Shakespeare, then, the switch from peerless Penelope to morose Master Gogolev might well make a person say, “O children, what a falling off was there!”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

The routers and switches in a telecom network are the same underlying technology as those in a data-center network, though the speeds and volume of traffic are drastically different.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

Whenever the ship switches to diesel, any residual methane gas has to be flushed out of the engine pipework and vented into the atmosphere.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

The industry’s pivot to touchable, tangible switches and selectors hasn’t changed any minds at Porsche.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

In conventional electronics, transistors act as switches that control whether electrical current can pass through a circuit.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

He frowns and turns to Emilika, says something in German, then switches to a very broken Polish.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

It functioned as a musical chairs of sorts, in which the contestants switched partners until the music was paused, and a couple was announced.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

The researchers also note that some participants may have switched from one medication to another during the follow-up period.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

The fighters embraced afterwards, but while attention quickly switched to Garcia - who exchanged words with WBO champion Teofimo Lopez at ringside - Benn left the arena looking dejected.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

If your company has recently switched providers, log in or call to confirm what’s currently on file.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

But when Molly didn’t seem to follow, she simply switched to Yiddish.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

She also called out Disneyland for its exhaust-spewing Autopia attraction, along with former Times climate columnist Sammy Roth, and Disneyland responded by announcing in 2024 that it was switching to electric cars beginning in 2027.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

At the age of 18, Roger Taylor headed to London to study dentistry, later switching to biology.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

The IEA cautioned that GPS jamming and vessels switching off their transponders mean the data likely understates actual traffic.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Instead of switching on genes that produce DNA repair proteins, the cells increased the activity of genes that promote cell death.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

My arms were aching, but moving faster meant switching from one to the other sooner.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge




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