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CHP

British  

abbreviation

  1. Also called: cogeneration. Combined Heat and Power: the production of both heat and electricity from the same device or power plant

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Once conditions improved, a CHP helicopter took an Inyo County search-and-rescue team to Iceberg Lake, where they “navigated snow and ice to reach the climber, whose remains were covered in snow.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

However, no other cars involved stopped, and CHP said it doesn’t know the identities of the other drivers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

According to figures on the municipality's website, Yeni is the largest group in the 184-member council with 91 seats, followed by the AKP with 38 and the CHP with 35.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

“At this point we have no reason to believe the threat is credible, however, CHP is on-site assessing the threat and conducting inspections of the area,” the email read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

During the course of the litigation, the CHP produced data that showed African Americans were twice as likely, and Latinos three times as likely, to be stopped and searched by its officers as were whites.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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