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device

[dih-vahys] / dɪˈvaɪs /




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Denmark's national team doctor Morten Boesen said the device - which he called a pacemaker - "responded as it should".

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

While my polysomnogram showed just 28 minutes of deep sleep, each device said I got over an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Around a decade later, when Danovich went to a clinic for another IUD—a small, T-shaped birth control device that’s inserted past the cervix into the uterus—she asked the doctor for pain medication.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2026

An agentic smartphone will need to find personal context on the device — such as calendar events, messages, photos and contacts — and plan and execute workflows using that information.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026

“Oh god. My mom is going to kill me. She’s probably inventing a device right now so she can punish me for the rest of my life.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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