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
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
This helped eliminate extremely weak false detections as well as unusually strong instrumental artifacts that typically appear in only one antenna.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
An important advantage is that the antenna is compatible with existing MRI equipment, eliminating the need for costly new infrastructure.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
After his grandparents went to bed, he rigged up an antenna and toyed with the radio dials, tuning in a German-language newscast on the BBC.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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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
Other bees frequently touch the dancer with their antennae and bodies.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 24, 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
Then the beetle seeks out an ant — climbing on top of it, clasping its antennae in its jaws and scooping up its pheromones with brush-like legs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
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
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Global drone makers are particularly dependent on China for brushless motors, antennas, cameras and batteries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Although the antennas needed different propagation coefficients, they still had to release light in the same consistent manner.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Based on those calculations, the team manufactured an OPA containing the reduced-crosstalk antennas.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
The MIT team instead created a repeating set of three antennas with distinct shapes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
They studied each other’s eyes, you know, like they had antennas and were sending radio signals to each other.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
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