transmit
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JPL also manages the Deep Space Network — the global array of massive antennas that will transmit commands to the copter and receive data from Titan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
In August, the Space Force announced it would bring five more companies into a satellite program designed to transmit military data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The connections responsible for generating the waves do more than transmit signals.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
It also said its terms and conditions make clear that radio signals may be intercepted, and it advises customers not to transmit sensitive or personal information over radio or public networks.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The fluorescent lights transmit conversations from passing cars on Broadway.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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The system places a nonlinear waveguide between two optical filters, each of which transmits a different portion of the light spectrum.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
The flea-sized psyllid bites the leaves and transmits the disease, which slowly chokes out the tree’s vascular system from the inside, taking years to finally show itself.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
These also aren’t the only messages Mr. Trump transmits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Every vessel transmits a message per second over a universal radio frequency that announces its identity, destination and position.
From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026
He tells me to be careful, and that he will be monitoring anything that transmits through my microphone.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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Our critic said that “even if the characters do not really interact, there is a notable sense of common feeling and purpose transmitted in moments of casual rapport between the actors.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
West Nile virus survives in nature in several types of birds and is transmitted to humans by the bites of mosquitoes that feed on infected birds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
It added that it has "no visibility of, or control over, the content transmitted by its customers".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Our research shows that this assumption may not always hold true. Other treponemal diseases may also have been transmitted from mother to child."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
However, those tropical African crops could never be transmitted across South Africa’s Fish River, beyond which they were stopped by Mediterranean conditions to which they were not adapted.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The component found transmitting a signal to China was part of a K3 Scout drone boat made by Kraken Technology, based in Fareham, England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
And because Aedes aegypti feeds almost exclusively on humans, the insects are great at transmitting disease from one person to the next.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
"We can confirm that the Houthis were recorded transmitting a warning message to ships in the region," the ICS said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Deep brain structures and the delicate tissues of the eye and surrounding orbit are especially challenging because of the hardware responsible for transmitting and receiving radiofrequency signals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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