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apparatus

[ap-uh-rat-uhs, -rey-tuhs] / ˌæp əˈræt əs, -ˈreɪ təs /


NOUN
organization or system
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Apparatus engineers at Cal Fire are responsible for operating and maintaining fire engines and water tanks during emergency responses.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2024

They are the most powerful in Tripoli along with a third, the Stability Support Apparatus.

From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2023

Carey didn’t have to wait for the Olympic trials to secure her spot in Tokyo as she clinched her spot as an individual through the Apparatus World Cup Series in April 2020.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2021

At one point, he ran a mop factory; at another, he hawked something called an Electro-Therapeutic Apparatus, which provided its owners with the putative health benefits of mild, recurrent electrocution.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 24, 2019

I requested Octav. to bespeak an Apparatus from a Glazier but he would not & defied me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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