- present tense form of instrument (3rd person singular).
- plural of instrument.
instruments
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Bombardier logged a $94 million loss on certain financial instruments in the quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Using humor and social trends, the sisters filmed themselves wearing matching outfits, dancing in sync or playing instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fiddle and mandolin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
But INES, Germany's gas storage industry association, said missing the deadline was a "clear signal that the instruments for ensuring winter preparedness need to be further developed".
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
These instruments revealed extremely small structural changes within the metal, including those near cracks that helped explain its unusual resistance to damage.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
That is, a lot of people couldn’t actually afford to pay their mortgages the old-fashioned way, and so the lenders were dreaming up new instruments to justify handing them new money.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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