beam
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Looking like a life jacket thrown into a car compactor, the work weaves a floppy beam of hazard-orange steel around and through a menacing conglomeration of rusty metal scraps.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Is the man napping on a beam in one photograph the same as the one listening to the radio in another?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Measuring signals this tiny is far more difficult than simply sending a beam into a detector and reading a result.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
The first laser beam established the position of each cluster with an accuracy of about 10 nm and placed the particles into a quantum superposition, meaning they could follow multiple paths through the apparatus simultaneously.
From Science Daily • May 11, 2026
In the beam of my flashlight, the gnarled trunks looked like faces.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Vocabulary lists containing beam
Engineering - Introductory
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Structural Engineering
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Civil Engineering
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