flashlight
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But the case was a small flashlight that cast a wide beam, revealing how the insurance industry views its own business and you, the customer.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 20, 2026
In experiments using mice, Edwards showed that this cancer detecting "flashlight" clearly illuminated tumors that produced EphA2.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026
Expect snow and ice, and bring warm clothes, traction devices for your boots and a headlamp or flashlight for the 3-mile round-trip walk, rangers advise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026
As rain pounded the cloth of her makeshift tent in central Gaza one night recently, Jihan Khalaf kept watch with a flashlight to ensure her three children didn’t drown in their sleep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
But then a smaller light—a flashlight? a penlight?—clicked on, hovering over Jonah’s desk.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Other images showed rescue workers with flashlights sifting through rubble.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
County schools had to be issued flashlights to help children on their way to school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Ultraviolet flashlights attracted only a small number of isopods and never triggered the swirling formations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
By Thursday morning, residents were lining up to buy first-aid kits, flashlights, solar chargers, duct tape and tents to drop off at donation sites that sprang up across a community known as “Doralzuela.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Now it was like he wore an orange construction vest and carried those signaling flashlights they have at airports.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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