instrument
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Whenever the couple need help – which is often as Tulsi frequently has to be carried to hospital – Padam Singh uses a traditional long-horn instrument to summon neighbours.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
It’s just a much better instrument for predicting value under uncertainty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The instrument analyzes light across a broad range of wavelengths, allowing astronomers to examine the chemical makeup and motion of material surrounding distant objects.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
But changing who holds the instrument does not necessarily change the music.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Our choices as to which instrument to play, in other words, are not entirely our own.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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But instruments that settle far larger sums answer to a patchwork of sampling rules and periodic checks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Where revenue or regulatory compliance depends on a measured quantity, companies should disclose how their instruments trace back to a national standard and state a margin of error.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Quantum states can be disrupted by interactions with their surroundings, including the instruments scientists use to examine them.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
When the spacecraft launched in 1977, it carried 10 instruments dedicated to scientific research.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Seismometers could detect movement of the earth’s crust far from where the instruments were actually located.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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The Blue Origin spacecraft will also carry an instrumented lunar surface spacesuit mass simulator.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, a U.S. naval facility, is the world's largest instrumented, "multi-dimensional" testing and training missile range, according to the U.S.
From Fox News ● Feb. 22, 2022
The initial design for the lab, to be built over the next 5 years at the University of Idaho, calls for 24 richly instrumented soil columns topped with airtight chambers for vegetation.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 12, 2021
"This is the most heavily instrumented vehicle we will ever fly so we will get a tremendous amount of engineering data on vibration and temperature and stress, acoustics," said Mr Shannon.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2021
We are unlikely to determine the answer to this question without landing instrumented space vehicles on the Titanian surface.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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“We are instrumenting the car in a way that is overloading the driver just like we were overloading the helicopter pilots,” said Strayer, director of the university’s Center for the Prevention of Distracted Driving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
This can be a result of budgetary constraints, the difficulty of instrumenting treacherous volcanoes and, in some cases, red tape preventing the placement of sensors in wilderness areas.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
“And we need to rethink what this instrumenting of the world — all that data being generated and collected — means for privacy and how all this data is used.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2015
Yet little has been done to probe the underlying crust and mantle, mainly because instrumenting the entire state is so expensive.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2013
Niels and I get to work carefully instrumenting the sleep logger and attaching it to the bird.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2011
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