instrument
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Example Sentences
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While studying two of these storms, the microphone on the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover unexpectedly picked up unusually strong signals.
From Science Daily
Squeezing past a set of congas he came to his signature instrument – the vibraphone.
From BBC
He thinks of composer Michael Giacchino “onstage with those virtuosos at their respective instruments; we work with masters all around us, so we have a lot of trust in them.”
From Los Angeles Times
Event contracts are taxed and regulated by the federal government as financial instruments.
From Barron's
Instead, there is smoke and vivid use of light—in the most dramatic sequences, such as the fire, a wall-size blaze of color angles forward from a bank of instruments on the floor upstage.
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