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[skan] / skæn /


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While almost all of the words here scan well line by line, they don’t often build into something profound, and they never seem, from the outside, to be particularly personal to the guy singing them.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

One of Certor’s top models has an impact-absorbing inner lattice designed around the scan of an athlete’s head.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

"Our findings suggest that not everyone necessarily needs or would benefit from a coronary artery calcium scan for the purpose of predicting risk of heart attack and stroke."

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

At their routine 12-week scan, Sophy had attempted to describe what she was seeing for Reece, but he struggled to feel involved in the moment.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

As I drop back into my squat behind home plate, my eyes scan the field, and I inhale deep.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

Then in August, the shares plunged after the agency placed the therapy on clinical hold when spinal scans turned up abnormalities in some trial participants.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

An expansion could include air ambulance transport, cancer treatment, MRI scans and medications, EFF found.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

Advanced MRI scans can catch early signs of cartilage breakdown, long before a standard X-ray would.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

CT scans combine thousands of X-rays into a detailed digital view of the interior of an object without having to destroy it.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

He raises the truck’s aerial, puts on the headset, and scans the spectra, trying to find anything that is not sanctioned.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Guided by the decades-old survey records, the researchers scanned 11.5 kilometers of seafloor using sonar.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

They scanned the brains of eight dogs while the animals viewed pictures of unfamiliar people showing either happy or neutral expressions.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

I wanted something small like a bran muffin and quickly scanned the menu for “I Am Regular” to no avail.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

Weary dock workers scanned their phones for updates until the all-clear sounded.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

That November morning in 1913, he scanned the mail to see what he’d been offered.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Harmful processes that either contribute to plaque accumulation or result from it may already be active in the brain even though the plaques themselves cannot yet be detected by scanning,

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

Among them was Subash Khatani, scanning lists and speaking to officials in the hope of finding news of his elder brother, one of the hundreds unaccounted for after the disaster.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

Some people have been scammed even though the QR code they are scanning is genuine.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

Wide-field time-domain surveys make this possible by repeatedly scanning large regions of the sky and tracking objects whose brightness changes.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

The group turned to look at Ella, their eyes scanning her from head to toe.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton




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