apparatus
Example Sentences
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The targeting clearly shows a strategy to degrade the regime’s apparatus of repression, but risks harming the very prisoners it is intended to empower, analysts said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
In 2014 the man who once headed China's vast security apparatus was arrested, and two years later, Hu's top aide was jailed for life for corruption.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
Dyszel built frames for neutron tracking detectors and assembled them within the experimental apparatus.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
On a mission to modernise the army, he took over an apparatus facing stretched air defences, financial uncertainty, stalled peace talks, recruitment problems and widespread bureaucracy and war fatigue.
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
This solarium didn't have any scientific apparatus in it, though its skylights were big enough for telescopes.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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