transmitter
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He secretly took the American's backpack, containing his MacBook, a satellite transmitter and other personal items, for regime operatives to look through, multiple sources say.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The observations allow astronomers to place "upper bounds" on the strength of any radio transmitter that might exist in the K2-18b system.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
For decades, proportional response functioned less as a strategy than a ritual: hit a transmitter, strike a barracks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
All one needs is "another radio transmitter that can broadcast on the same frequency, but louder," she said, which creates "a wall of mush."
From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026
“Ten square kilometers. Locate the transmitter, locate our friend.”
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Because mice are efficient transmitters of B. burgdorferi, an increase in mice seemed likely to produce not only more ticks but also a greater proportion of infected ticks.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
This year, conditions including a record-smashing March heat wave led to a surge in California’s native Culex mosquitoes, the transmitters of West Nile virus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Jamming of foreign broadcasts was pioneered by Nazi Germany during World War Two, using noise or signals from more powerful transmitters located closer to the listeners.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
In January, FinCEN issued an order requiring banks and money transmitters in two Minnesota counties to file information about overseas transactions greater than $3,000, far lower than the normal $10,000 threshold for flagging cash transactions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Any civilization able to intercept Voyager in the depths of interstellar space, its transmitters long dead, would know far more science than we do.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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