telescope
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Local air pollution authorities, possessing little power and even less solid science, singled out oil industries, factories, manufacturers and chemical companies, and they weren’t wrong — just looking through the opposite end of the telescope.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Flipping the telescope to the large end is not unique to this particular cohort, nor is it anything to criticize or demonize.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026
Argentina’s recent decision to pause a joint Chinese effort to construct a large radio telescope is a hopeful sign.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter should be visible to the naked eye but Uranus and Neptune will likely require binoculars or a telescope.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
From the heights of Monticello, Jefferson watched the British troops through his spyglass, or hand telescope.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
