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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Boost is engine manifold pressure, a key ingredient in the maintenance of horsepower and ultimately, miles per hour.
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His belting experiments, too, focused on costs more than on horsepower or coefficients of friction.
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It had a 700 horsepower V8 that was fuelled on a mixture of alcohol and nitro-methane.
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Often makers try pulling a fast one by giving a tractor a number that's bigger than its actual horsepower .
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Rather, automatic horsepower was, itself, the first phase of the knowledge revolution.
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The engine of the big mechanical monster was ticking over with the deep throb of impatient, reined-in horsepower .