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
Its media apparatus has become the main source of information for people living in the country, particularly when the internet is cut off.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 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
Not a whisper of disturbance could be allowed into the room containing the apparatus, so Cavendish took up a position in an adjoining room and made his observations with a telescope aimed through a peephole.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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