instrument
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I definitely place more weight on ideas versus the discipline of playing an instrument.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The Mars flyby, however, marked the first time the instrument measured the magnetic signature of a celestial body.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
He loves to headbang while playing the hurdy-gurdy, an instrument he picked up in 2010 and later employed in the “Black Sails” show and “God of War: Ragnarok” video game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The administration had one instrument, an off switch, and acted decisively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
But the En Cognito program ensures I understand how each instrument in that bag works.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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She's developed a new-found a love for traditional Irish music saying: "It's awesome. I love seeing all the instruments, I love the music."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
"We were playing instruments, they were rapping and playing their instruments," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
His parents didn’t agree, so he struggled with various cobbled-together instruments and learned songs by Buddy Holly and other rock pioneers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Investors should also consider other instruments that can help investors get exposure to the energy market, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 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
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The Blue Origin spacecraft will also carry an instrumented lunar surface spacesuit mass simulator.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Then we browsed the For You page feed for each sockpuppet, recording what we saw via WebArchive.page, a specially instrumented web browser that archives all the data involved in a browsing session locally.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 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
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“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
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