instrument

Ballistic missiles have become an instrument of geopolitical coercion because of technological change.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

A melodica is a handheld instrument played by blowing air into a reed, which is attached to a keyboard.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Fenton set Hopkins up with a keyboard loaded with samples of every instrument, and an internal switch was flipped: now the actor could compose for orchestra.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Without the "Big Bang" power saving effort, the Voyager team would have needed to turn off another instrument aboard Voyager 2 before the end of 2026.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

He tuned the instrument, put it under his chin, and started to play.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

I was at a sound bath in the North American Mammal Hall at L.A.’s Natural History Museum, surrounded by dioramas of taxidermy, meditative instruments and sound healers from the Oso Sound Healing Studio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

"This gives MMX a clearer picture of what its instruments -- and ultimately the sample collection -- can expect."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Catching them in nets and fitting the instruments takes about 20 minutes: a brief stressful episode after which the animals return to normal behavior.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

The chairman has a few instruments for holding a committee together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

But the instruments they were using to measure growth were clunky and took a lot of time and energy to analyze.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Because of these risks, the landslide area has been extensively instrumented since 2020.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

I worked at the facility from 1973 to 1976, and Metro’s 1000-series cars were instrumented and running around loops to identify problem areas.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

We're the only sport that has done this type of work with instrumented mouthguards.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2022

When NASA’s most powerful rocket ever attempts its first flight this month, its highest profile payload will be three instrumented mannequins, setting off on a 42-day journey beyond the Moon and back.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 15, 2022

We are unlikely to determine the answer to this question without landing instrumented space vehicles on the Titanian surface.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“We are instrumenting the car in a way that is overloading the driver just like we were overloading the helicopter pilots,” said Strayer, director of the university’s Center for the Prevention of Distracted Driving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022

This can be a result of budgetary constraints, the difficulty of instrumenting treacherous volcanoes and, in some cases, red tape preventing the placement of sensors in wilderness areas.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021

“And we need to rethink what this instrumenting of the world — all that data being generated and collected — means for privacy and how all this data is used.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2015

Yet little has been done to probe the underlying crust and mantle, mainly because instrumenting the entire state is so expensive.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2013

Niels and I get to work carefully instrumenting the sleep logger and attaching it to the bird.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2011