thermometers

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Two people in the area fainted as thermometers showed the temperature hitting 97 degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Since 1999, his role involves opening what is known as the Stevenson screen which holds sensitive thermometers, before noting down his readings for the day into the handwritten ledger.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

For example, these firms can use such data to put a customer into a “new parent” profile and then promote “higher priced baby thermometers on the first page of their search results,” the report stated.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025

The outage in that state on Tuesday came during a heat wave in the Northeast that shot thermometers up above 90 degrees in Boston.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

Telescopes and thermometers do not change the world around them as saws and hammers do, but they change our awareness of the world.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton