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- noun Alternative form of
power line .
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Examples
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Dannel Malloy, touring some of the hardest-hit areas of Danbury and Ridgefield on Wednesday, said the storms have brought into sharp focus the state's problems with tree and power-line maintenance.
Connecticut's Power Woes Outshine Rest Shelly Banjo 2011
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It's unlikely that the economics of power-lines are any different: a power-line grid would probably be equally vulnerable to disruption in any one place.
An Energy Internet?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It would take a huge, multi-megawatt power-line to do an equivalent feat for an electric car.
Dr. Winfried Wilcke: Jumpstarting the Real Electric Car Revolution Dr. Winfried Wilcke 2010
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And savings made by using power-line transmission have been outweighed by the cost of employing large numbers of field engineers to guarantee services.
Smart grid leaders 2011
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He had ran about 250 yards total through lots of rough terrain, but dropped right below a metal power-line tower on an access road to the fields.
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It would take a huge, multi-megawatt power-line to do an equivalent feat for an electric car.
Dr. Winfried Wilcke: Jumpstarting the Real Electric Car Revolution Dr. Winfried Wilcke 2010
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A Texas man badly disfigured in a power-line accident has received the nation's first full face transplant.
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Coverage of yesterday's hearing on power-line burial -- among witnesses: former Ward 8 council member Eydie Whittington (Patch)
DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 1, 2010 Mike DeBonis 2010
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It would take a huge, multi-megawatt power-line to do an equivalent feat for an electric car.
Dr. Winfried Wilcke: Jumpstarting the Real Electric Car Revolution Dr. Winfried Wilcke 2010
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He had ran about 250 yards total through lots of rough terrain, but dropped right below a metal power-line tower on an access road to the fields.
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