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as in spirits
a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings
many Eastern cultures believe in the significance of life energy in the healing process
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as in fuels
something with a usable capacity for doing work
some of the power needs of the house are provided by solar energy
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Recent Examples of energies
The goal is not to change them but to harness their creative energies.
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Chip Bell, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Focus energies on winning customers over with personalized data, and there will be far less need to win them back.
—Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
The energies of retrograde can feel confusing, especially in the days leading up to it.
—Danijela Pilic, Glamour, 13 Mar. 2025
At low energies and in regions of space where there is little curvature, and thus little gravity, these equations replicate those of general relativity.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2025
However, as with all renewable energies, the world faces a great challenge in lowering the cost of hydrogen production.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 10 Mar. 2025
But there’s an upper limit to the maximum energies achieved in the hot Big Bang that’s more than a factor of 1000 below the Planck energy, suggesting that no, the dynamics of inflation shouldn’t be sufficient to select out various string vacua.
—Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
For years, the cosmic ray subsystem’s three-telescope array observed fluctuations from protons and other deep space energies, and was integral in determining when and where Voyager 1 exited the heliosphere.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2025
In past decades, evening anchors could devote all their energies to their mainstay program, but the decision to have Llamas stay with live-streaming suggests that’s no longer possible.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
Chip Bell, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Focus energies on winning customers over with personalized data, and there will be far less need to win them back.
—Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
The energies of retrograde can feel confusing, especially in the days leading up to it.
—Danijela Pilic, Glamour, 13 Mar. 2025
At low energies and in regions of space where there is little curvature, and thus little gravity, these equations replicate those of general relativity.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2025
However, as with all renewable energies, the world faces a great challenge in lowering the cost of hydrogen production.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 10 Mar. 2025
But there’s an upper limit to the maximum energies achieved in the hot Big Bang that’s more than a factor of 1000 below the Planck energy, suggesting that no, the dynamics of inflation shouldn’t be sufficient to select out various string vacua.
—Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
For years, the cosmic ray subsystem’s three-telescope array observed fluctuations from protons and other deep space energies, and was integral in determining when and where Voyager 1 exited the heliosphere.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2025
In past decades, evening anchors could devote all their energies to their mainstay program, but the decision to have Llamas stay with live-streaming suggests that’s no longer possible.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Energies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/energies. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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