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- verb Present participle of
power .
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Examples
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To bring it back, a host of companies and aid agencies are using the most plentiful resource on the planet to begin powering one of the biggest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen: Solar power.
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In the not too distant future, your home, your entire city, your truck (he specializes in powering trucks), government buildings, even a war here and there, will be power by Zero-Amp Tech, Inc.
Peter Sumaruck 2010
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As I've said before, peak oil isn't a problem if the economy it's powering is shrinking.
Jeffrey Rubin: Tightening Oil Markets Will Bring the Speculators Back Jeffrey Rubin 2010
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As I've said before, peak oil isn't a problem if the economy it's powering is shrinking.
Jeffrey Rubin: Tightening Oil Markets Will Bring the Speculators Back Jeffrey Rubin 2010
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Where I do see space-based solar power being useful is in powering assets in space.
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Ultimately, the role of the solar panel in powering cars might well lie, not on the car itself, but on the garage that houses it.
Wish We Were Here ... Charlie Corbett 2010
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If the wind was a slap, the shockwave was a solid punch, pounding every inch of my body, the pain powering right through the epidermis to the muscle and bone and beyond.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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It has done yeoman's service in powering the world's agricultural machinery to cultivate ever greater expanses of land.
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WebKit, originally from Konquerer, and currently best-known as powering Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome Web browsers.
CNET News.com 2009
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It looks and plays like a first-person shooter, but is built around the notion of powering up your character by earning experience points, and hunting through dungeons for randomly generated loot.
Slate Magazine Leigh Alexander, Jamin Brophy-Warren, Mitch Krpata 2009
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