instrument
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On “American Dream,” Mr. Cockrell’s instrument has a slapback effect, as if he’s playing underwater, echoing the lyric’s description of feeling overwhelmed and weighted down by the state of the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The sound stage felt bludgeoned into submission throughout, as the intense distortion of bass, percussion and guitars made the instrument separation within the mix almost inaudible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
A melodica is a handheld instrument played by blowing air into a reed, which is attached to a keyboard.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The genre or at least the loudest instrument shifts every couple hundred feet until we reach the fireworks.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
The cramped cabin had three small portholes, radio equipment, and instrument panels.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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In addition to the variety of instruments evoking the sounds of nature, it incorporated breathwork, vocal exercises and a small amount of physical sensation: a refreshing spritz of rose water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Catching them in nets and fitting the instruments takes about 20 minutes: a brief stressful episode after which the animals return to normal behavior.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The chairman has a few instruments for holding a committee together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The simulations relied on detailed maps of elevation and temperature generated from data collected by instruments aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, along with models showing how radiation reaches the lunar surface.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
She drafted drawings of new flight instruments and prepared them for testing.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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The Blue Origin spacecraft will also carry an instrumented lunar surface spacesuit mass simulator.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
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
"This is the most heavily instrumented vehicle we will ever fly so we will get a tremendous amount of engineering data on vibration and temperature and stress, acoustics," said Mr Shannon.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2021
“We’ve got bad-actor volcanoes that aren’t optimally instrumented to the level that they should be,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2020
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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