instrument
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The project uses Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, an instrument capable of resolving individual star clusters and nebulae in galaxies located tens of millions of light-years away.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
A perfect score indicates no errors on the screening instrument, but clinicians emphasize that the result is interpreted in context and is not considered evidence of exceptional intelligence.
From Salon • May 31, 2026
In the book Mr. King specifies that the instrument of destruction is a short roque mallet.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
But if you can dig and play from your soul, this instrument just becomes a vessel of sound and orbit, bro, it’s over.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
Carl Orff came across an African xylophone, and developed a way to transform the xylophone into an instrument for the children at the school to play.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Vocabulary lists containing instrument
Macbeth's "Is this a dagger..." soliloquy
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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
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