thermometer
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He gave a tour of his room in the quarantine center on Instagram, showing the fridge, smart TV and thermometer he was given for temperature checks.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
Drizzle could dampen Southern California on Monday and Tuesday before a heat wave arrives just in time for Mother’s Day weekend — possibly pushing the thermometer to 90 degrees in downtown L.A. on Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
"Imagine TRPM8 as a microscopic thermometer inside your body," said Hyuk-Joon Lee, a postdoctoral fellow in Seok-Yong Lee's laboratory at Duke University.
From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026
The box also lacked a thermometer that could alert the medical team to the low temperature.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
Now he was withdrawing the trumpet, sliding it out very very carefully, like a thermometer.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
Vocabulary lists containing thermometer
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