instrument
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Korkejian sourced many of those sounds from instruments she first picked up as a child, returning to the trumpet — her second instrument after piano — and experimenting with tuba and valve trombone.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026
The European Commission, which leads EU trade policy, is working on an instrument that would force businesses to diversify their suppliers in critical sectors like chips and rare earths.
From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026
Trade also faltered for a second consecutive month at sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument, book, and miscellaneous retailers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
Yet interest rate levels are a blunt instrument when it comes to tweaking certain parts of the economy, Jamner said in a phone interview.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026
There was also a third, even more mind-bending, way to think of this new instrument: as a near-perfect replica of a subprime mortgage bond.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing instrument
Macbeth's "Is this a dagger..." soliloquy
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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
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