power up
Britishverb
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(tr, adverb) to switch on the power to (a computer system)
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to begin to make good use of or take full advantage of
Example Sentences
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They power up when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing and then discharge that power when the sun sets or the wind dies down.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
"What we've done is taken two of our 74 horsepower engines from our construction machines, we've laid them on their side and we've turned the power up," Lee Harper, chief engineer at JCB, explained.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
CoreWeave Chief Executive Michael Intrator shared in a Bloomberg interview last month that the company had secured 2.8 gigawatts of contracted power, up 600 megawatts from the second quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2025
But their modular nature means they become cost competitive if they are used off-grid for data centers that need power up nearly 100% of the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
It's lunch hour, so I throw on sweats and power up the treadmill in my office suite.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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