thermometer
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Inside, the temperature is 23C while outside the thermometer read 30C on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
One is the 'feels like', which is how your body feels the heat rather than what the thermometer says.
From BBC ● May 9, 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
The thermometer was hovering just under seventy, and the sun was glinting off the Cut just as it had that day a year before.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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
Some new charcoal grills—traditionally the cook-anything-anywhere option—now require electricity to power internal fans and built-in thermometers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Newsom homed in on Trump’s climate change denials while speaking to New York Times reporter David Gelles at the paper’s Climate Forward forum on Wednesday, saying thermometers are not political.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 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
The nurse had set her tray of thermometers on my bed while she turned her back and took the pulse of the person who lay next to me, in Mrs. Tomolillo's place.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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