apparatus
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The service said four firefighters wearing breathing apparatus were deployed to extinguish the blaze, but the occupant managed to safely evacuate the house.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
They’re up against the entire apparatus that allowed Skydance to become what it is now.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
The researchers connected their thorium excitation apparatus to a conventional optical atomic clock, demonstrating that the nuclei could serve as a highly precise timekeeping reference.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
At the time of their arrest, writes Ms. Salter, “no one in the entire apparatus of the Far Eastern Bureau knew where more bodies were buried than Yakob and Tatyana.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The workers carried oversized wrenches, cranks, and other tools, and were using them to make adjustments on some unseen apparatus beneath the water’s surface.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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"A total of 60 fire apparatuses arrived, just short, just shy of 200 men and women from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, to begin the actual search and rescue and firefighting," Jadallah said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Will people start wearing N95 masks indoors, or have breathing apparatuses hooked up to their chests like fighter pilots?
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Iran, Russia and North Korea have all built elaborate apparatuses to skirt financial blockades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
There are also prize apparatuses dedicated largely to Funko’s plastic figurines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
Most of the Humans’ apparatuses had to do with creating light or heat.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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