instrument
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Example Sentences
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The movie is a powerfully blunt instrument of empathy.
From Los Angeles Times
“I grab instruments a lot, but now I had to learn all these songs and rehearse them,” Webb says.
From Los Angeles Times
The $700-billion reinsurance industry also relies on the center’s data, tools and climate models to create financial instruments, such as catastrophe bonds, that are directly tied to weather or natural disaster risks.
From Los Angeles Times
The Rice-led team addressed those challenges through improved sample preparation and high-precision instruments, supported by an international effort involving major laboratories across Europe and North America.
From Science Daily
Steward researchers are contributing to a new European nulling interferometer that will be 50 times more sensitive than earlier instruments.
From Science Daily
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