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Music-product sales have declined in recent years, after a Covid-era bump when people stuck at home decided to learn an instrument.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Their experiments relied on a torsion balance, an instrument capable of detecting extremely small forces by measuring how much a thin suspended fiber twists.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

The instrument also featured on the cover of Oasis's debut single Supersonic.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The instrument can capture details at roughly 3 feet per pixel.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Fred the Shark was making a pattern, slightly irregular, like a kid learning to play an instrument.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

They deduce that, overnight, instruments have recorded a tightening cluster of earthquakes beneath Yellowstone’s vast caldera, which is roughly 55–70 kilometers across.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Autocallable notes are structured-debt instruments tied to stocks or an index with underlying equity exposure.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

The instruments, which were used during his time with The Smiths and on his forthcoming solo album, went under the hammer as part of Christie's Marr's Guitars: The Johnny Marr Collection sale.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

J&J has been seeking to unload its DePuy Synthes orthopedics business and the hips-and-knee unit, which also makes instruments to repair bones and joints, had been a linchpin of the operation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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

The Blue Origin spacecraft will also carry an instrumented lunar surface spacesuit mass simulator.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

Then we browsed the For You page feed for each sockpuppet, recording what we saw via WebArchive.page, a specially instrumented web browser that archives all the data involved in a browsing session locally.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023

When NASA’s most powerful rocket ever attempts its first flight this month, its highest profile payload will be three instrumented mannequins, setting off on a 42-day journey beyond the Moon and back.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 15, 2022

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

We are unlikely to determine the answer to this question without landing instrumented space vehicles on the Titanian surface.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“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