instrument
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The instrument allowed scientists to survey the northern sky across a wide range of radio frequencies.
From Science Daily • May 20, 2026
“I wanted to bring that voice I had done in the animated movie and pair it with my actual instrument, which is my body,” Cage continues.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Pennants are viewed as continuation patterns, which means the charted instrument tends to break out in the direction of the trend that preceded it.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
The private Chinese security players “have evolved from marginal actors into an important instrument of Beijing’s overseas risk-management architecture,” said Alessandro Arduino, associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London defense think-tank.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
The haunting notes didn’t resemble an organ, a piano, a fiddle, or any instrument of this world.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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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