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The Fed’s main interest-rate instrument, the federal-funds rate, now stands at 3.5 to 3.75%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Arizona State University leads operations of the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

A melodica is a handheld instrument played by blowing air into a reed, which is attached to a keyboard.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Fenton set Hopkins up with a keyboard loaded with samples of every instrument, and an internal switch was flipped: now the actor could compose for orchestra.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

I finally made out what Calvin Smiley’s instrument was, and I could hardly believe my eyes.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Measuring those features requires instruments capable of revealing what lies beneath the rubble, similar to how a CT scanner can reveal bones and tissues inside the human body.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Sets of instruments were stationed along every wall of the room, fully encompassing us in sound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Catching them in nets and fitting the instruments takes about 20 minutes: a brief stressful episode after which the animals return to normal behavior.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Thus, along with their instruments they packed sheaves of what appeared to be sheet music but was in fact coded data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Musical instruments small enough for mouse hands and lips would hardly serve.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

Because of these risks, the landslide area has been extensively instrumented since 2020.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

I worked at the facility from 1973 to 1976, and Metro’s 1000-series cars were instrumented and running around loops to identify problem areas.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, a U.S. naval facility, is the world's largest instrumented, "multi-dimensional" testing and training missile range, according to the U.S.

From Fox News ● Feb. 22, 2022

"This is the most heavily instrumented vehicle we will ever fly so we will get a tremendous amount of engineering data on vibration and temperature and stress, acoustics," said Mr Shannon.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2021

We are unlikely to determine the answer to this question without landing instrumented space vehicles on the Titanian surface.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“We are instrumenting the car in a way that is overloading the driver just like we were overloading the helicopter pilots,” said Strayer, director of the university’s Center for the Prevention of Distracted Driving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022

This can be a result of budgetary constraints, the difficulty of instrumenting treacherous volcanoes and, in some cases, red tape preventing the placement of sensors in wilderness areas.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021

“And we need to rethink what this instrumenting of the world — all that data being generated and collected — means for privacy and how all this data is used.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2015

Yet little has been done to probe the underlying crust and mantle, mainly because instrumenting the entire state is so expensive.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2013

Niels and I get to work carefully instrumenting the sleep logger and attaching it to the bird.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2011