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camera

[kam-er-uh, kam-ruh] / ˈkæm ər ə, ˈkæm rə /
NOUN
photographic equipment
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Maria Sullivan, his museum’s head of conservation, said her team used an infrared camera to see if they could discern more of the artist’s handwriting in the dark corner, but they could not.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

What the camera saw mattered almost as much as where it was looking from.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Many of these are solid, middle-class jobs held by people behind the scenes who keep studios humming, including camera operators, makeup artists and grips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The agent who shot Garces Perez had been instructed to wear a body camera but wasn’t, which could make even an impartial investigation harder.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

“It’s a valid question. These, my dear, are no ordinary cameras. These,” he said, patting the camera by his side like it was a dog, “these detect Butterflies.”

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

They were servi camerae, serfs of the state, and as such had to pay oppressive taxes.

From Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history by S. M. (Simon Markovich) Dubnow

Apparently he returned to court life in England, and to the duties of valettus camerae regis.

From Chaucer and His Times by Grace E. Hadow

Under the circumstances, if Chaucer ever was a "vallettus camerae Regis," we should expect him to have been so called more than once.

From Chaucer's Official Life by James Root Hulbert

Two questions of topography arise here, the position of the Garden and that of the chambers, or "camerae."

From William de Colchester Abbot of Westminster by Ernest Harold Pearce

Chambers, or camerae, monks', 47-50 Chapter House, 30 Charing Cross, 47 f.,

From William de Colchester Abbot of Westminster by Ernest Harold Pearce



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