Example Sentences

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Just like the Monte Carlo experimenter, Klari was harnessing randomness towards her own ends.

From Scientific American • Mar. 31, 2022

She was harnessing her semantic knowledge to devise plausible images, but each image was off.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2015

The Cocteau Twins' swan song was released just as a new generation of shoe-gazers buzzing on Robin Guthrie's blissful sheets of guitars was harnessing his ideas to travel deeper and louder.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2014

The first hurdle was harnessing the money and passion to get the company back in the game.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2012

As he talked, he was harnessing the donkey.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios