x-ray
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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
ARG began the process of identifying which tiles needed the most remediation by doing a photorealistic laser scan of the building that MacLean described as a sort of high-tech x-ray.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025
Police later released an x-ray that appeared to show an individual's abdomen with a foreign object inside.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025
“We won’t know until we x-ray it. It may be worse if you don’t stop moving that leg.”
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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To understand how that feature changes RNA's behavior, the researchers used temperature controlled microscopy, small angle X ray scattering and molecular dynamics simulations performed by the Joseph group.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
To examine those features, the team used CT scanning technology, assembling a stack of X ray images into a detailed three dimensional model.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026
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
Then he showed me a second X ray, it was cloudy, and I didn’t make anything of it.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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