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x-ray

[eks-ray] / ˈɛksˌreɪ /


X ray


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"From the ticket counter line to the x-ray room, there was a measles patient everywhere," he says.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

To investigate these strange behaviors, scientists used extremely fast x-ray pulses generated by powerful lasers in South Korea.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026

Duffy said ICE agents are trained law enforcement, and “know how to pat people down” and operate x-ray machines.

From Barron's ● Mar. 22, 2026

A technical take is more like an x-ray that might pinpoint unhealthy symptoms a bit sooner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

“Perhaps a diagnostic hip x-ray would be in order.”

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

The contrast is somewhat similar to the difference between an MRI, which can emphasize soft tissues such as muscle, and an X ray, which is especially useful for viewing dense structures such as bone.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

By tracking repeating patterns in both X ray and radio signals from the event, the researchers found that the disk and the jet were wobbling together.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2025

And there can be a bleakness to the light; it’s like an X ray, penetrating everything.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 15, 2014

It is only the X ray that can tell us the internal arrangement of the crystal.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2012

J. D. Bernal, the crystallographer, would later call them the “most beautiful X ray photographs of any substance ever taken.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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