scan
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And it’s because, when you take a photograph or a scan, that blue pencil disappears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
The surrogate, named M.W. in court filings but who has identified herself publicly as McKenna West, said she had been pressured by the couple to have an abortion after a fetal scan diagnosed the abnormality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
A rapid scan reveals much below the surface.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
It was the day for the routine 34-week scan for the twins he was expecting with his wife, Naomi.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Her eyes scan mine, like she’s trying to decide whether or not I can handle what she wants to tell me.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
The scans confirmed fossilized soft tissue in cut sections of the rib.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
The multicancer-detection tests are part of a new wave of popular preventive health interventions like whole-body scans that seek to allow people to better understand their health.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
When the EBT card is swiped, the fake reader scans and copies the information stored on the magnetic stripe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
When she questioned multiple scans that did not seem to show evidence of a tumour, she says the consultant told her it would not be "visible to the naked eye".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Her steady eye scans the four of us.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
Putin was listening to Sisi through an interpretation headset clipped to his ear, while his eyes scanned the crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The 66-year-old scanned a QR code on the advert, using an app he had downloaded.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Evidence indicates many of the purchased books are sent to facilities where they are sliced up, scanned and destroyed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
They scanned the brains of eight dogs while the animals viewed pictures of unfamiliar people showing either happy or neutral expressions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
She scanned the page for another word, the longer the better.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
However, they also see a scenario in which bots disrupt banks’ engagement with customers, scanning for products and executing transactions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
CT scanning those specimens may give researchers a new way to study feathers, diets, predator relationships, and other details of prehistoric ecosystems.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Harmful processes that either contribute to plaque accumulation or result from it may already be active in the brain even though the plaques themselves cannot yet be detected by scanning,
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
Among them was Subash Khatani, scanning lists and speaking to officials in the hope of finding news of his elder brother, one of the hundreds unaccounted for after the disaster.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Jason said, pushing to his feet, scanning the landscape.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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