instrument
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"We should not treat AI as a threat to good jobs. We should use it as an instrument to create them," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Built using proven hardware, the instrument relies on a compact silicon detector to measure the energy carried by incoming space radiation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Towards the end of the night, just before a closer with the Faces’ “Ooh La La,” Murray brought out a one-of-a-kind instrument for a big flourish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Memorabilia includes a clapperboard used for The Man Who Fell To Earth, and his first instrument, a Grafton Alto saxophone bought for him by his father in 1961.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
I was merely a humble instrument of the Lord that day.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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This series is also a reminder that long before the founding, it was the people who made constitutional and legal change with their own hands, through their own instruments of government.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
They include scientific instruments such as a robotic arm for removing space debris, an Earth observation camera and satellites, including one from a German company.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Musically and vocally gifted, they wring harmonies and beats from an assortment of instruments, mixing genres and styles with an eloquence that surpasses the exposition sprinkled into the lyrics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Beginning in 2030, the European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin rover is expected to join the search with specialized instruments designed to look for stronger chemical evidence.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
His first three models were large, clumsy, heavy instruments, but his final masterpiece was not much larger than a heavy pocket watch.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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Because of these risks, the landslide area has been extensively instrumented since 2020.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025
Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, a U.S. naval facility, is the world's largest instrumented, "multi-dimensional" testing and training missile range, according to the U.S.
From Fox News ● Feb. 22, 2022
The initial design for the lab, to be built over the next 5 years at the University of Idaho, calls for 24 richly instrumented soil columns topped with airtight chambers for vegetation.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 12, 2021
"This is the most heavily instrumented vehicle we will ever fly so we will get a tremendous amount of engineering data on vibration and temperature and stress, acoustics," said Mr Shannon.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2021
We are unlikely to determine the answer to this question without landing instrumented space vehicles on the Titanian surface.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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“We are instrumenting the car in a way that is overloading the driver just like we were overloading the helicopter pilots,” said Strayer, director of the university’s Center for the Prevention of Distracted Driving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
This can be a result of budgetary constraints, the difficulty of instrumenting treacherous volcanoes and, in some cases, red tape preventing the placement of sensors in wilderness areas.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
“And we need to rethink what this instrumenting of the world — all that data being generated and collected — means for privacy and how all this data is used.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2015
Yet little has been done to probe the underlying crust and mantle, mainly because instrumenting the entire state is so expensive.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2013
Niels and I get to work carefully instrumenting the sleep logger and attaching it to the bird.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2011
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