instrument
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Whenever the couple need help – which is often as Tulsi frequently has to be carried to hospital – Padam Singh uses a traditional long-horn instrument to summon neighbours.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
The evidence comes from observations collected with the X-Shooter instrument on ESO's VLT in Chile's Atacama Desert.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
He used the piano much as baroque composers employed the harpsichord, as a sort of spine to bind the musical action together, and the instrument is found in all but one of the six symphonies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
But changing who holds the instrument does not necessarily change the music.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Instruments all over the world can be grouped into five categories based on the Sachs-Hornbostel instrument classification system.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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This restriction is not caused by flaws in scientific instruments.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
Where revenue or regulatory compliance depends on a measured quantity, companies should disclose how their instruments trace back to a national standard and state a margin of error.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Bombardier logged a $94 million loss on certain financial instruments in the quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
I got to spend time in David Lynch’s art studio, and we jammed together on weird instruments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Scientists are often experts in their field, the ones who know which instruments to use and what the data from those instruments mean.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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The Blue Origin spacecraft will also carry an instrumented lunar surface spacesuit mass simulator.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
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
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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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