instrument
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Example Sentences
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He thinks of composer Michael Giacchino “onstage with those virtuosos at their respective instruments; we work with masters all around us, so we have a lot of trust in them.”
From Los Angeles Times
Event contracts are taxed and regulated by the federal government as financial instruments.
From Barron's
Instead, there is smoke and vivid use of light—in the most dramatic sequences, such as the fire, a wall-size blaze of color angles forward from a bank of instruments on the floor upstage.
These instruments are essential for future missions that aim to directly image Earth-like planets around other stars, objects that can be ten billion times fainter than the stars they orbit.
From Science Daily
Ministers are "investing millions" to help schools invest in musical instruments and equipment, and "supporting high quality music teaching through our Music Hubs", they said.
From BBC
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