thermometer
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More broadly, the thermometer climbed above 35 C in regions covering 80 percent of Europe’s residents, some 490 million people.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
That can be vastly different from the reading on a thermometer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Basically, he wrote a hit piece on the thermometer instead of asking why he had a fever.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
WSJ | Buy Side: This instant-read thermometer deserves a place in your kitchen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
She pops a disposable cone on a thermometer and sticks it in my ear.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
Even at sea, thermometers have registered record temperatures.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Today, gallium is widely used in semiconductors, telecommunications equipment, LEDs, laser diodes, solar panels, high performance computing, the aerospace and defense industries, and as a safer alternative to mercury in thermometers.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Two people in the area fainted as thermometers showed the temperature hitting 97 degrees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
As the UK's national weather service, the Met Office is the custodian of the Central England Temperature record, the longest running weather record in the world, based on measurements taken using thermometers and other instruments.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2025
He carefully set the pieces into two padded suitcases equipped with thermometers.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
Vocabulary lists containing thermometer
Physical Geography - Introductory
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