TW
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TW
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tw
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It took 40 years to achieve 1 TW of global installed capacity - but most commentators expect the next one to be installed before the end of the decade.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2024
On 17, he drained a putt that was nearly 24 feet, and finished with a putt of 7½ feet, removing his black TW cap and easing into a smile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
By 2024, for instance, BloombergNEF projects that the world is expected to have the capacity to produce almost 1 TW of photovoltaic panels each year: that alone could meet one-seventh of today’s annual electricity demand.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2022
To put this in perspective, covering 100×100 km2 of desert with 10% efficient solar cells would produce 0.29 TW of power, about 12% of the global human demand for electricity.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018
By this time Dennis and Norton had gone into the living room and started to watch TW but right where they could keep an eye on timing the phone call.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
I wanted to quit Twitter, but my fingers were as if possessed, typing command+n, tw, enter at any lull in the workday, letting autofill take care of the rest.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2020
I can travel through the area of Charlotte I live in, about ten miles from center city with a police substation tw miles away and rarely see a cop.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2016
All summer They have lived On candies and plums, Bunches of grapes From their tw In the San Joaquin Valley.
From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto
In ordinary texts some survive, especially as objects of verbs, namely, wi, tw, tn, sw, st.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
Th, as in thine, thin; thd, breath'd; thr, three; thst, breath'st; thw, thwack; thz, writhes; tl, title; tld, settl'd; tldst, settl'dst; tlst,settl'st; tlz, nettles; tr, truuk; ts, fits; tw, twirl.
From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles W. Sanders
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