Example Sentences

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Developers say the two huge neighbouring battery farms - one at the site of a former opencast coal mine - will store enough electricity to power three million homes.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025

All across the UK, large scale battery farms are springing up at amazing speed - this one I visited in Buckinghamshire was completed in just 10 months.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2023

The welfare of chickens kept in battery farms naturally suffered.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2023

If it makes you shiver, if it makes you think of the battery farms in The Matrix or the hatcheries in Brave New World, you are not alone.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2020

They are little more than battery farms for the hopeful western parents who courier embryos to Mumbai for the surrogates to carry for nine months.

From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2013