instrument
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“You can’t rule that out that she would have been holding the instrument that caused either of those wounds?” the attorney asked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
And it is great, the way that Stonehenge is great, another astronomical instrument straining at the bounds of human expression to convey our silent wonder at the mysteries of the cosmos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Their work included repeated simulations, theoretical modeling, and detailed inspections of the instrument.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
A photographer and fixture in the L.A. punk scene by 14, the fact that she didn’t play an instrument was a minor hurdle when she joined L7 in 1986.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
In Jim’s grand plan, PIH would become an instrument for expanding the resources to treat TB, and in the process save itself.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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The comet was exceptionally difficult to detect with these instruments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Counterterrorism tools are among the most powerful instruments the U.S. government possesses.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
The figures are adjusted for gains and losses from hedging instruments, foreign exchange derivatives and other items.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
This series is also a reminder that long before the founding, it was the people who made constitutional and legal change with their own hands, through their own instruments of government.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
The plastic instruments aren’t as large as the real things, but they’re plenty capable of making a racket.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Because of these risks, the landslide area has been extensively instrumented since 2020.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025
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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