zap
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"I definitely think it could kind of zap you pretty quick with how hot it could get," she said.
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
Ford said Thursday that it expects tariffs to zap $1 billion from its bottom line in 2025, down from the $2 billion hit it projected in July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
This isn't a supernatural being that craves blood; energy-vampires refer to friends who seem to zap your energy when you spend time with them.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025
It can lead to side effects such as a symptom called "brain zap" in which patients feel sudden shocks in their head.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2025
“I’d like to zap this stuff and have it put itself away. If the dishes could also sing and dance while they’re at it, that’d be great.”
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
It finds the misfiring heart tissue and zaps the electrical nodes causing an irregular heartbeat.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
One unusual symptom is ear zaps, or the sensation of an electrical zap behind one’s ear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
Over the zaps of workers’ welding and beeps of a forklift, Cover representatives answered questions about the homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
They share tips like prioritizing deadlines, taking on short-term anchor jobs, and ensuring you don’t give all your time to work that zaps your energy.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2024
The laser zaps and breaks up rocks, and my system is then able to study the composition of the dust.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
No surprise, the panel agreed with him and concocted pretexts to kill the treatment—for instance, the staff opined that maybe biopsies had zapped the tumors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
As he’d done so many times before this time of year, Walker Buehler had already zapped them of any life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024
If you thought that meant the cast of “Veep” would do the honors for the top comedy award, Annie Murphy’s appearance alongside the Levys quickly zapped that idea.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2024
They zapped nanocrystals of ruthenium dioxide with high-energy radiation, and then watched the changes wrought by the acidic environment inside the cell.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024
Officer Delinko was mulling his situation, watching the rain stream down, when a lightning bolt zapped a utility pole at the end of the street.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
"When a satellite crosses what we observe, it makes a bright streak on our image, zapping whatever is behind it," said ESO astronomer Olivier Hainaut, who led the study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
After grinding and zapping the dust with lasers, Prof Anand's team hope to answer fundamental questions about how the Moon formed and about the early years of planet Earth.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
About 90 minutes into the day’s march across the ice cap, whiteout conditions and howling winds bear down on them, zapping all visibility and prompting a pointed back-and-forth.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
He needs body parts and she can help get those for him, zapping him further back to life with the electrifying tanning bed in her garage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
She remembered when Aphrodite had claimed her at the bonfire in front of the entire camp, zapping her with a magic beauty-queen makeover.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
