instrument
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So Roy Ayers’ biggest song doesn’t prominently feature his voice or his main instrument.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Pennants are viewed as continuation patterns, which means the charted instrument tends to break out in the direction of the trend that preceded it.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
The private Chinese security players “have evolved from marginal actors into an important instrument of Beijing’s overseas risk-management architecture,” said Alessandro Arduino, associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London defense think-tank.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
Teddy Thompson possesses one of those voices, a golden, vivid instrument capable of conjuring joy — though not in excess; he’s English — and caverns of heartache.
From Salon • May 15, 2026
In short, scientists say that nothing we do as humans uses more parts of our brain and is more complex than playing an instrument.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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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