antenna
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As the hulking antenna swivels into action, screens inside the control room light up with the names of objects the radar system detects: stars, satellites and abandoned rocket bodies.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Each antenna contains tiny, regularly spaced variations along its length.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
At that time, she was living in Kyongsong, a coastal county in the North, where families could pick up TV signals across the water with an antenna.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
By producing clearer images more quickly, the new antenna could shorten scan times while giving physicians greater confidence in their diagnoses.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Vonetta froze, then backed away from the antenna, carefully and dramatically, her arms outstretched in the leaning V shape of the left and right antennae until she sat down.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
If Mengucci’s plain talk can’t be received by investors’ antennae or Bluetooth, they’d better check their connectivity.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
"There's around 10,000 satellites orbiting right now. The plan is to go to about 40-50,000 satellites in just some years," explains Abrahamsson, as he stands overlooking several large antennae.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
This girl boss couldn’t feel less human if antennae sprouted from her eyebrows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
Today, there’s a Christmas tree fashioned out of communication antennae on her bow.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
A yellow-and-black burying beetle, crawling across the white fur of his belly, stopped, waved its short, curved antennae and then moved on again.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Federal aviation officials are planning to move air-traffic control antennas and implement new procedures to avoid a repeat of last week’s safety incident with Marine One near a busy Washington, D.C., airport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Global drone makers are particularly dependent on China for brushless motors, antennas, cameras and batteries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The MIT team addressed those problems by creating an array of integrated antennas that greatly limits unwanted crosstalk, which occurs when neighboring antennas interfere with one another.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Placing the antennas close together creates a serious obstacle.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Pastor Robertson turned the set on and adjusted the antennas to bring the picture in clearer.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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