instrument
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Example Sentences
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Wolf Alice, winning best group, used their allotted stage time to make a plea for the "pubs, clubs and grassroots venues where we quite literally learned to play our instruments and write our songs".
From BBC
“It would hit not only Western consumers but also China and regional buyers. It is a blunt instrument.”
From MarketWatch
Prediction markets sell event contracts, a financial instrument regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, whose insider trading rules are modeled after those of the Securities Exchange Commission, the stock market regulator.
From Barron's
Throughout the United States, spirits rapped messages, played instruments, remembered the past, and told of the future.
From Literature
The team also deployed seismic instruments that detected a series of glacier earthquakes during the period of rapid retreat.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
