instrument
Usage
Example Sentences
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A cartridge containing small tubes preloaded with different antibiotics is placed directly into the urine sample and inserted into an instrument.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
"We are Near Eastern archaeologists. So that is our work. That is like a musician who can no longer play an instrument," she told AFP.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
To better understand the host galaxy, Sears led follow-up observations using Webb's NIRCam, its main near-infrared imaging instrument, several months after the event.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
Deighton once credited the success of “The Ipcress File,” his debut novel, to the fact that critics “used me as a blunt instrument to beat Ian Fleming over the head.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
When the prolonged shaking knocked out power lines, backup generators clicked on to run the plant’s instrument panels and keep critical coolant moving through the reactors.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
