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scanner

[skan-er] / ˈskæn ər /
NOUN
optical character recognition
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But officials say such a scanner had already been donated by the Chinese government.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Using a hand-held X-ray fluorescence scanner, Packard-Grams found that some of those documents contain ink with lead and/or copper.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

I’ve been seeing a steady drip of people sharing photos and videos of themselves on social media in butter-yellow bathrobes standing on a cylindrical 360-degree body scanner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

In 2025, a preliminary study carried out with the 7-Tesla MRI scanner at the ULiège platform allowed the team to examine the locus coeruleus in greater detail.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

He can also use a scanner to send copies of assignments or textbook pages that he needs help understanding.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

"Importantly, the affected scanners rejected ballots they could not properly recognize rather than incorrectly tabulating them," it said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Participants then did an exercise designing a store of their choice using ChatGPT, while fMRI scanners recorded their brain activity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Plus, Flock moves to calm a backlash over its license-plate scanners and Instagram gets a new wordmark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The latter is usually responsible for security at airports in the United States, with fans and media having to go through airport security-style scanners.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

They have the full arsenal of CTs and MRIs—noninvasive brain scanners that can electronically "slice up" a brain and lay it out, level by level, like the floor plan of a house.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman


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