instrument
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The project uses Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, an instrument capable of resolving individual star clusters and nebulae in galaxies located tens of millions of light-years away.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
A perfect score indicates no errors on the screening instrument, but clinicians emphasize that the result is interpreted in context and is not considered evidence of exceptional intelligence.
From Salon • May 31, 2026
He then attaches a pair of gloves to a fan, and the hands, now autonomous, proceed to “play” the improvised teapot instrument.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
But if you can dig and play from your soul, this instrument just becomes a vessel of sound and orbit, bro, it’s over.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
From the Coldwater site and another site, named Timberline, directly on the mountain, Johnston peered through a big, boxy instrument called a correlation spectrometer.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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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