instruments

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The credits list well over a dozen instruments, but there’s never a sense of a band—almost no interplay or individual parts that command attention.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

The company designs and produces precision instruments used to measure temperature, pressure, level and flow, supplying customers in about 90 countries worldwide.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

That is, “liquidate equities priced on disinflationary assumptions, hold short-duration instruments that reprice with rates, and wait. Cash earning 5% while inflation is 3.5% is not a great real return.”

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

Researchers led by the University of Cambridge, working with colleagues from the University of California, analyzed long-term measurements collected by research ships and robotic ocean instruments.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

Because they predate written records of their use and were not known to exist until after the date of the Mary Rose’s sinking, the navigational instruments that were excavated are also extremely important.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler