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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

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

While Hitchcock required use of a fake-ID scanner, he said that he couldn’t control all of his employees and that the bouncer who let in patrons with fake IDs was fired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Oh, yeah—when the scientists went into their laboratories, where all the deadly viruses were kept, they’d had to place their hands on a scanner to get in, to prove who they really were.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Chaves maintained close ties to the U.S., successfully lobbying the Biden administration for high-tech antidrug scanners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

More police forces are adopting A.I. facial scanners; the tech is being piloted in schools, buses, and stores as well.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

"The  UK has constantly been scrimping and saving… we are low on scanners, low on everything, way behind everybody else," he says.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Today, lasers are used throughout modern society, from supermarket barcode scanners to vision correction procedures and advanced scientific instruments.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Toward the end of the twentieth century, scientists will invent brain scanners that can "image" the electrical and chemical activity inside a living brain.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman


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