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
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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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Unit 19, Lesson 2
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