instrument
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Castel responded to skepticism about his instrument by building one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The instrument could enable scientists to detect tidal disruption events at far greater distances from Earth than previously thought possible.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Never look at the Sun through binoculars, a telescope, or a camera unless a solar filter designed for the front of the instrument is securely attached.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
I definitely place more weight on ideas versus the discipline of playing an instrument.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Playing a steady beat on the xylophone or other percussion instrument.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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The authors begin with cosmic instruments and the ways people have used music to understand the world and their place in it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Then there are instruments that translate “the non-musical into the musical, and vice versa.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
And so we learn of instruments that reflect the order of the universe, or are activated by thought, or combine useful objects in perfectly impractical ways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Extended instruments depend on the combination or multiplication of already existing components.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
This site would be helpful to those learning new instruments, as well as experienced musicians who are just looking for some new music to play.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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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
We're the only sport that has done this type of work with instrumented mouthguards.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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
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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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