sonar
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He trades the plush G-funk popular in L.A. for a style more common in New York—all hard surfaces and rigid drums, with a barely-there melody that pings like sonar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The San Francisco Police Department has been using boat-mounted sonar to search for the vessel since Tuesday and located its remains Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Some have claimed the illness is caused by microwaves, prompting further speculation that a foreign power may have used some kind of sonar weapon to attack US overseas staff and their dependants.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The region contains faults, volcanic structures, rifts, scarps, and active subduction and spreading zones, many located at depths that make detailed sonar mapping extremely difficult.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Batsare obliged to make sounds almost ceaselessly, to sense, by sonar, all the objects in their surroundings.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Mayer and other scientists argued that emerging technologies, especially multibeam sonars that produce detailed 3D images, offered an unprecedented opportunity to document little known sea floors off the U.S.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 8, 2024
“You use sonars to verify ranges and they might have been testing the sonar or working out the echo strength of the sonar,” the source told The Times.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
Using a variety of sonars and two remotely operated vehicles — Deep Discoverer and Serios — researchers aboard the ship are mapping and collecting samples from areas along the Aleutian Trench and Gulf of Alaska.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
National Marine Fisheries Service that concluded the Navy had "killed at least six whales in an accident involving common ship-based sonars."
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2023
Tom filtered out the difference in the two sounds with the correlation calculator unit of one of his quality analyzer sonars.
From Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Charles Brey
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Earth Science - Middle School
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