How to Use turbine in a Sentence
turbine
noun
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The project has installed nine turbines and is in the process of installing the 10th.
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Steve Leblanc,
Fortune,
23 Feb. 2024
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But the most common way to spin a turbine is to pump steam through it.
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Washington Post,
28 Apr. 2022
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Still, the turbines are a clear — and for some, bitter — sign that times have changed.
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Kat Lonsdorf,
NPR,
26 Feb. 2024
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With its huge crane, the ship hoists the turbine pieces onto its own deck.
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Patrick McGeehan,
New York Times,
11 Jan. 2024
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The next step is to make some moderate-sized turbine blades and test them in the field.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
26 Aug. 2022
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In the best case, a turbine can be assembled in about two and a half days.
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Patrick McGeehan,
New York Times,
11 Jan. 2024
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Wind turbine makers have lost some of the wind in their sails this year.
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Rochelle Toplensky,
WSJ,
10 Sep. 2021
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Some of the turbines caught fire, sending plumes of smoke into the air.
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Hannah Fingerhut,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2024
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In Europe, turbine blades have been used to build bridges.
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Justine Calma,
The Verge,
13 Feb. 2023
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Water is piped through hot rock and returned to the surface in the form of steam that drives a turbine.
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Brian Maffly,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
30 Apr. 2022
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But on these two turbines, this is not part of the grant funding that's available right now.
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The Arizona Republic,
7 Apr. 2024
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Throughout the area, wind farm turbines spun rapidly in the wind and blinding rain.
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CBS News,
7 May 2024
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That would require more than 2,000 turbines in the water.
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Alfredo Sosa,
The Christian Science Monitor,
17 Jan. 2024
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Madonna was the commercial turbine that drove Sire through the ’80s.
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Chris Morris,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2023
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The internal turbine spins the huge fan, pushing the jet forward.
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Howard Slutsken,
CNN,
7 Dec. 2022
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Anecdotes abound of elk and pronghorn strolling around turbines or napping in their shade.
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Catrin Einhorn,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2024
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The turbine will then run off of the steam and produce electricity.
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Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
8 Feb. 2023
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The modular layout allows for most of the turbine to be built off-site and then towed out to sea.
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Clarisa Diaz,
Quartz,
28 June 2021
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Now, a total of five turbines have been installed there too.
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Jennifer McDermott,
Fortune Europe,
4 Jan. 2024
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In other words, as the wave compresses the air in three chambers inside the buoy, the turbine spins.
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David Szondy,
New Atlas,
26 July 2024
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Old wind-turbine blades are getting a new lease on life—in cement.
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Dieter Holger,
WSJ,
26 Apr. 2022
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There’s a lot of labor and time involved in installing skyscraper-size turbines miles off the coast.
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Molly Taft,
The New Republic,
8 Sep. 2023
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Dangerous shards of the turbine from Vineyard Wind are still washing up on the beach.
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Andrew Follett,
National Review,
24 July 2024
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Of those deaths, 136 were attributed to the eagle being struck by a turbine blade.
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Margaret Osborne,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 Apr. 2022
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The airline later found a bird had been ingested by the turbine.
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Benjamin Katz,
WSJ,
6 Feb. 2022
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Whirring turbines bashed fish that attempted to scoot past.
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Tony Schick,
ProPublica,
31 Oct. 2023
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The job is not just about returning turbines to service.
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Caitlin Kelly,
WIRED,
15 Apr. 2024
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The still-nascent field of airborne wind energy (AWE) has a solution: Swap out the turbine for a kite on a string.
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IEEE Spectrum,
16 Jan. 2024
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The turbines are supported by jacket foundations, rather than the monopiles used at South Fork Wind.
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Pippa Stevens,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2024
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The power plant does not consume the water, instead sending it through its turbines before putting it back in the river.
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Elise Schmelzer,
The Denver Post,
17 Sep. 2024
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