aperture
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In the video’s limited aperture, Gamble’s arrest alongside a suburban highway could have been anywhere.
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
Cyclists completing the Whitehaven to Sunderland route are greeted with a view of Roker Lighthouse through an aperture, carved into a six-and-a-half-tonne slab of black granite.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
He brought out Kehlani for “Folded,” another perfectly regal ballad that revels in a small aperture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
Expanding the receiver aperture can improve results, but only up to a certain limit.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 17, 2026
Was it, I asked myself, a ray from the moon penetrating some aperture in the blind?
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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To open it up to the street, the architects chose the motif of “frames, apertures and doorways.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Fractions of a second count and he can change apertures and focuses with a flick of his finger without taking his eyes from his quarry.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024
Dudley hopes to conduct further experiments, perhaps with a sequence of different apertures, to determine how birds navigate multiple obstacles.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
Despite the collection of doors and apertures in the set, the actors’ bodies inhabit it in limited ways.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
Also, the bedroom has several valve apertures in its canvas.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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"The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
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