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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

During both sessions, they performed a spatial orientation task while their brain activity was recorded in an MRI scanner.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

I stumble out of the scanner, and the air opens up around me.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

The U.S. is trying to reduce its reliance on China for rare earths, which go into everything from drones to MRI scanners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 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

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

As the subjects used the video game, the researchers studied their performance with behavioral tests, and used eye scanners and captured the electrical activity in their brain with EEG.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel


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