instruments
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Paz has so far emphasized the need for dialogue but not ruled out using "constitutional instruments" to end the blockade of La Paz -- an allusion to declaring a state of emergency.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
For years, analyzing the chemical makeup of materials has required large and costly laboratory instruments known as spectrometers.
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
Delivery vehicles would also be taken that could drive astronauts over the lunar surface and carry communications and scientific instruments.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
Some of the firms act as market makers, buying and selling huge volumes of financial instruments and taking a profit in the process.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Extra clothes, books, scientific instruments and specimens, chess sets, flags, lanterns, tools, sewing kits, lucky talismans, razors, barometers, combs, scissors, playing cards, dishes, silverware, photographs—each man added to the heap.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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