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thermometer

noun as in measure of temperature

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With QGP reaching temperatures of several trillion Kelvins, the challenge was to find a "thermometer" capable of observing it without interference.

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The Scot brought a thermometer to last year’s contest.

“There’s no Republican or Democratic thermometer — red and blue state alike, and countries around the world, are facing this climate-fueled insurance crisis. And California is taking action,” Newsom said in a statement accompanying his order.

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So I’ve been quarantined in a corner of the house, reaching alternately for Tylenol and the thermometer.

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Sunday was one of those cloudless late-summer Dodger Stadium afternoons in which the flags in center field stirred lazily in the slight breeze and the air felt far hotter than the thermometer said.

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