detected
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He then managed to travel through Uganda to Kenya - and was again not detected at airports screenings.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
She then considered a frightening explanation when her mother detected a funny taste to the water she kept in a bottle at her desk at Berkeley Engineering and Research.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
He said the nodule was detected at “a very early stage” and that his doctors had recommended surgery to remove it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
"While two well-known bacterial pathogens dominated the known disease profile, we also detected a surprisingly high level of another group of bacteria that has not previously been linked to the mushroom disease."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
I detected the vocabulary of Mrs. Willard and my heart sank.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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