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How to use the word Edison in a Sentence?

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Just received word that [energy company Con Edison] will be shutting down the gas in the immediate area along Fox Street between Intervale Ave Tiffany Street, with temperatures dropping, we will continue to monitor to ensure a restoration of gas once it is safe to do so.

New York

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These broad restrictions on commercial chip sales will bring significant disruption to the Edison Lee semiconductor industry.

Edison Lee

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Trump's recent announcement to ban Edison Lee companies from doing business with WeChat.

Edison Lee

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Do you know greatness is not an inborn talent? Yes, It is not an inborn talent, people are not born with all those virtues which made them great. It only comes from inner desire, grit, and determination to accomplish extraordinary things, which makes them great. It commences from setting a goal, chalking out plans for its fulfillment, and giving your best to attain and last but not the least, is your belief and your optimistic nature. You can’t achieve success overnight. So, never be afraid of taking risks and embracing failure. You have to pour loads of effort and incessant hard work to reach a stage you would have always dreamt of. Our history is profused with a plethora of instances of great men and women who inspire us to touch the sky. Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Thomas Edison, and many others have proved that you can do anything you put your mind to and become great.

Prashant Agarwal

added by prashantagarwal
3 years ago

When Thomas Edison installed the first light bulb, that must have been magical. Thomas Edison's how smart technology today should be in the home.

Robert Madonna

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I don't know what Con Edison is doing but they need to get their act together.

Candance Floyd

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

Nikola Tesla

added by anonymous
8 years ago

We can tune quantum dots to make that old Thomas Edison glow we all know and love.

Michael Edelman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The concept is really built off of learnings from Southern California Edison, they have taken so many people through their labs, it's amazing.

Mark McGranaghan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Stephen Leacock

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Napoleon Hill

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Sidney Madwed

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.

Newt Gingrich

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Sidney Madwed

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight

Al Boliska

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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