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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
scram .
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Examples
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Experts say that plant operators don't take lightly unplanned shutdowns, known as a scrams, and that they can prompt structural changes.
Japan Plant Had Earlier Alert Chester Dawson 2011
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Experts say that plant operators don't take lightly unplanned shutdowns, known as a scrams, and that they can prompt structural changes.
Japan Plant Had Earlier Alert Chester Dawson 2011
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Japanese operators and regulators point to their low incidence of "scrams," emergency shutdowns that can result automatically when sensors detect equipment abnormalities.
Safety Formula Had More Reactors Doing Less Rebecca Smith 2011
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VY had the highest rate of reactor scrams in the country in the 1990's.
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Then she backed up into the Wall of Weirdness (I'll explain that one later) and scrams, "Ow, A TACK!" and falls over.
super-suzan Diary Entry super-suzan 2006
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Red scrams, "130, Raja Towers" where a bomb has exploded a month earlier killing 100 people.
12/24/2006 - 12/31/2006 Miss Snark 2006
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Red scrams, "130, Raja Towers" where a bomb has exploded a month earlier killing 100 people.
Archive 2006-12-24 Miss Snark 2006
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Red scrams, "130, Raja Towers" where a bomb has exploded a month earlier killing 100 people.
HH Com 496 Miss Snark 2006
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Many walls inside the David Collins-designed hotel are covered in a light blue-gray faux suede that scrams "touch me!"
USATODAY.com News 2011
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We enter my apartment and my creepy Asian roommate scrams like a cockroach.
vksempireofdirt.com 2010
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