instrument
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One possibility would be for the European Commission to deploy a legal instrument known as the "blocking mechanism".
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Another important instrument will be a short-period seismometer, designed to detect vibrations and seismic activity, including moonquakes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Paris and Berlin also recommended the creation of a diversification instrument to curb European trade dependencies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
But as time went on, he found that directors were always casting him in roles that required him to play an instrument, so he decided to make music his main focus.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
But the En Cognito program ensures I understand how each instrument in that bag works.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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The extended X-ray activity was energetic, but it occurred at wavelengths that conventional gamma-ray instruments would have struggled to detect.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Local schools may take musical instruments gathering dust in your basement or attic as they did for me.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
It’s so immediately distinctive: 0 to 60 in five seconds, instant energy, a handful of guitar notes before all of the instruments rev up.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
A hospital monitor’s flat-line drone dissolved into an orchestral beginning, suggesting a return to life; hand-drum rhythms injected Mexican flavor, while bells and mallet instruments supplied some otherworldly touches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“Everybody knows Sounds are the best. They're always super chill and relaxed. Have the best lounge with all the instruments in it,” one said.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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The Blue Origin spacecraft will also carry an instrumented lunar surface spacesuit mass simulator.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
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’ve got bad-actor volcanoes that aren’t optimally instrumented to the level that they should be,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2020
We are unlikely to determine the answer to this question without landing instrumented space vehicles on the Titanian surface.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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“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
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