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Recent Examples of harnessing
But AfD has long become adept at harnessing discontent with issues well beyond its signature theme of curbing migration, which powered its rise in the mid-2010s.
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ABC News,
3 July 2026
Two GB10s leverage a software technology called tensor parallelism to split, or shard, an AI model across both machines, harnessing them as a team to share the load and deliver results.
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Charles Jefferies,
PC Magazine,
30 June 2026
But once these challenges are overcome, harnessing a network of qubits can yield stunning numbers of outcomes.
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Donald Keough,
Christian Science Monitor,
27 June 2026
Erika Anderson is a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Francisco harnessing molecular biology to better understand the development of diseases.
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Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
26 June 2026
Such is life in professional golf, a sport built on managing failure and harnessing emotions — and where success one week, or one year, doesn’t always carry over to the next.
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Eddie Pells,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2026
In Seattle, there was a sense of the team harnessing the crowd’s energy, and of the crowd channelling the energy emanating far beyond.
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Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
20 June 2026
Their new manager has found a way of harnessing it and, if the first group game is anything to go by, using it to boost performance.
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Ben Church,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
General Motors is among the Western automakers striving to match that blistering pace, by harnessing AI and simulation to dramatically shorten development times.
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IEEE Spectrum,
17 June 2026
ABC News,
3 July 2026
Two GB10s leverage a software technology called tensor parallelism to split, or shard, an AI model across both machines, harnessing them as a team to share the load and deliver results.
—
Charles Jefferies,
PC Magazine,
30 June 2026
But once these challenges are overcome, harnessing a network of qubits can yield stunning numbers of outcomes.
—
Donald Keough,
Christian Science Monitor,
27 June 2026
Erika Anderson is a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Francisco harnessing molecular biology to better understand the development of diseases.
—
Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
26 June 2026
Such is life in professional golf, a sport built on managing failure and harnessing emotions — and where success one week, or one year, doesn’t always carry over to the next.
—
Eddie Pells,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2026
In Seattle, there was a sense of the team harnessing the crowd’s energy, and of the crowd channelling the energy emanating far beyond.
—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
20 June 2026
Their new manager has found a way of harnessing it and, if the first group game is anything to go by, using it to boost performance.
—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
General Motors is among the Western automakers striving to match that blistering pace, by harnessing AI and simulation to dramatically shorten development times.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
17 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for harnessing
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In court documents, O’Hara alleged the defendants violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights, accusing them of unlawfully restricting free speech and initiating an unlawful seizure while using excessive force.
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This article was created by content specialists using various tools, including AI.
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The next day, a team from Chile, utilizing radar and sonar sound-detection equipment, confirmed the presence of Gil, still alive, in the sub-basement.
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The corporate leadership stated that utilizing additive manufacturing allows the organization to reduce the standard timelines required to bring new power generation designs to the commercial marketplace.
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But the recent action on Anthropic, as well as asking OpenAI to limit its own newest model, comes after experts have fretted for months that Mythos could pose a security risk by giving hackers and other bad actors access to AI capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities exceptionally quickly.
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The 2018 games in Russia similarly came under fire for accusations of bribery and exploiting workers.
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Normally, credit bureaus tally any credit checks within a 45-day period as one credit check, and your credit score shouldn't go down more than several points when applying to multiple lenders.
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Madonna divorced from Guy Ritchie in 2008, before applying to adopt Mercy, and her adoption application was initially rejected by the courts.
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The case garnered national interest because Oregon's new law targets the loopholes large staffing firms have been employing to circumvent state corporate medicine laws.
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The metaphor of a ‘wall of separation’ At the same time, religious reformers were employing concepts of walls, hedges or other barriers to ensure that the secular and religious realms remained apart.
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“Harnessing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harnessing. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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