apparatus
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The service said four firefighters wearing breathing apparatus were deployed to extinguish the blaze, but the occupant managed to safely evacuate the house.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
They’re up against the entire apparatus that allowed Skydance to become what it is now.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
The researchers connected their thorium excitation apparatus to a conventional optical atomic clock, demonstrating that the nuclei could serve as a highly precise timekeeping reference.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
“That was the most difficult thing to learn because, as a dancer, you have such a relationship to the floor and you have to dance with an apparatus that doesn’t quite move with you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Sometimes, he’d make sure they weren’t on the same apparatus that Joseph was on.
From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt
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"A total of 60 fire apparatuses arrived, just short, just shy of 200 men and women from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, to begin the actual search and rescue and firefighting," Jadallah said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Iran, Russia and North Korea have all built elaborate apparatuses to skirt financial blockades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Recently, both Amazon’s and Google’s TV apparatuses have cracked down on sideloading—the practice of downloading apps from third-party providers—by exclusively permitting downloads from their parent companies’ authorized app stores.
From Slate ● May 3, 2026
A total of 112 fire personnel were sent to the incident where they assumed a defensive position, surrounding the building with water spraying apparatuses, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
It was 1895, a fortuitous moment when physicists were pondering a host of strange new physical forces manifested in their apparatuses.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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