apparatus
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At the time of their arrest, writes Ms. Salter, “no one in the entire apparatus of the Far Eastern Bureau knew where more bodies were buried than Yakob and Tatyana.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
According to the driver manual for city firefighters presented to the jury, “the first apparatus in a convoy shall stop at all red lights and stop signs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Beverly Hills High spent $4.8 million on its apparatus in a single fiscal year, and it’s less an outlier than a preview of what the vendors want everywhere.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
But make no mistake: Maher will also get away with it because he is a male celebrity with a potent, wealthy media apparatus invested in helping him help his audience to move on.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2017
A poor pharmacist with little in the way of advanced apparatus, he discovered eight elements–chlorine, fluorine, manganese, barium, molybdenum, tungsten, nitrogen, and oxygen–and got credit for none of them.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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"A total of 60 fire apparatuses arrived, just short, just shy of 200 men and women from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, to begin the actual search and rescue and firefighting," Jadallah said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Iran, Russia and North Korea have all built elaborate apparatuses to skirt financial blockades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
“We used multiple aerial apparatuses, fire engines and rescues to help combat this incident,” Byrd said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
The women of Team USA's gymnastics team capped off an incredibly strong showing at the Paris Olympics on Monay, set to return home with an assortment of medals from various apparatuses.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024
It was 1895, a fortuitous moment when physicists were pondering a host of strange new physical forces manifested in their apparatuses.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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