How to Use maglev in a Sentence
maglev
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Evans, in a disclosure submitted in May, reported the compensation and that his work involved a bill that would have prohibited state funding for maglev projects.
—Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
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The new Chinese train won’t be the world’s first maglev train.
—Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 5 June 2019
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The cost to ride the maglev would be higher than using Amtrak.
—Washington Post, 7 May 2021
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Japan is one of the first countries to develop and adopt maglev trains.
—Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
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That’s a little faster than the fastest operating speed for a train in the world today, the Shanghai maglev.
—Emily Badger, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2017
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That’s a little faster than the fastest normal operating speed for a train in the world today, the Shanghai maglev.
—Emily Badger, The Seattle Times, 10 Aug. 2017
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Features like the shallow maglev keyboard and the Kaby Lake-G chip suggest that thinness was a goal here.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 23 May 2018
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Discussion of a maglev system for the Washington region goes back at least two decades.
—Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
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Some maglev trains, including very fast ones, are in service today.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2020
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The maglev isn’t the only high-speed travel concept Maryland is embracing.
—Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2018
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The maglev could begin operating as early as 2030, the report says.
—Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
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Baltimore’s maglev terminal would be built on the Westport site.
—Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2023
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Train schemes had risen and, inevitably, fallen — among them a proposal for a maglev, a train levitated and propelled by magnets.
—Susanne Craig, Mike McIntire and Russ Buettner, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2020
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That proposal calls for using maglev technology with trains reaching speeds of 375 miles per hour.
—Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 23 Mar. 2018
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On Sunday, Virgin Hyperloop sent two passengers through its pneumatic maglev train for the first time.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2020
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That’s right—the train, which takes just over 7 minutes to complete the journey using magnetic levitation (maglev) technology, doesn’t go to the city center.
—Cynthia Drescher, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2018
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Both the maglev proposal and the Cove Point operation have boosters, but also detractors.
—Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 10 July 2018
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Maryland Baltimore: Four chambers of commerce in the state are endorsing a plan to build a $10 billion high-speed maglev train between Baltimore and Washington.
—USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2019
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Since Elon Musk popularized the idea in the primordial soup of 2013, at least four companies have seized the maglev tube mantle, determined to deliver an actual whoosh.
—Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2018
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All this movement poses a challenge for Bivacor’s maglev rotor.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
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Cars under construction will travel along 3.9km of elevated maglev track, taking just two days from start to completion.
—The Economist, 5 July 2018
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But more will be spent on infrastructure, including the maglev train, which the government wants to help build between Tokyo and Osaka by as early as 2037, eight years earlier than a previous timetable.
—Jonathan Soble, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2016
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All transportation will be via underground maglev trains, like Japan’s Chuo Shinkansen under construction now, or electric/hybrid cars, which constituted over half the new cars sold in Norway in 2017.
—New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
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Basically, the Hyperloop is a combination of airplane cabin and life support systems and a maglev train.
—Alice Bonasio, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2018
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The longest unspooled a fascinating dissertation-scale rumination on where best to locate maglev trains in the United States.
—Linda Chong, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
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Instead of relying on an infrastructure project like the maglev, many in Oshika stress the need for sustainable development.
—Takehiko Kambayashi, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2022
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The Cave of the Winds now boasts unique aeronautical adventure courses in which jetpacks, hovercraft, maglev transportation and other small air technologies are tested.
—New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
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The museum features everything from trial maglev trains all the way back to historical steam trains, and also offers simulators to try driving yourself.
—John Walton, CNN, 4 May 2023
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Wakanda owes its stability to the wise stewardship of the Black Panthers, for centuries the hereditary rulers of the nation, and its wealth to vibranium, a mysterious element used in the construction of both advanced maglev trains and sonic cannons.
—Jonathan W. Gray, New Republic, 13 Feb. 2018
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The Federal Railroad Administration studied a German version of the maglev technology in the early 2000s.
—Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
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