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to put into action or service
huge dams harness the power of water to produce electricity
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Recent Examples of harnessed
This should allow more of the enterprise’s knowledge can be harnessed.
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Andrew Binns, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
While early radio amateurs harnessed its potential to connect and inform, the era of unlicensed amateur broadcasting ended during World War I due to fears that the new medium might be misused to spread foreign propaganda or divisive content.
—CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
Today artificial intelligence can be harnessed by nearly anyone, using commands in everyday language instead of code.
—H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty, Harvard Business Review, 1 Oct. 2024
Andrew Binns, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
While early radio amateurs harnessed its potential to connect and inform, the era of unlicensed amateur broadcasting ended during World War I due to fears that the new medium might be misused to spread foreign propaganda or divisive content.
—CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
Today artificial intelligence can be harnessed by nearly anyone, using commands in everyday language instead of code.
—H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty, Harvard Business Review, 1 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for harnessed
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Born in revolution, tempered by war This gun served in the American Civil War and was later used in many conflicts throughout the 19th century.Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
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Despite its previous bad culinary advice about pizza and rocks, AI will initially be used for the presentation of the results for queries in English about recipes and meal ideas entered on mobile devices.Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
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The current findings utilized the shape memory effect of SMAs to recover the ILMs’ shape by adding heat.Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
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Researchers utilized Free, Prior and Informed Consent as an indicator.Amy Nguyen, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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When applied to each state’s eight individual grades used in my scorecard, this geeky math shows California’s grades had the highest deviation.Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 14 Nov. 2024
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In the future, researchers believe similar dating methodologies could one day be applied to not just other meteorites, but planets.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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Amos’ daughter also claimed that her brother had impersonated their dad in communications, disregarded his medical needs, mishandled his finances and exploited and eroded his legacy.Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
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There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding Amos since June 2023, when his daughter, Shannon, claimed he was being financially exploited and accused unnamed parties of elder abuse.Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 2 Oct. 2024
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For the Spanish-language Dracula, Universal employed a different director, actors and crew to work at night on the same sets — and in many of the same costumes — that were used during the day for the Tod Browning version that made Bela Lugosi a legend.Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
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Later in 2019, the woman claims that she was physically dominated and raped by Brooks while employed for an event.Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Harnessed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harnessed. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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