instrument
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Pennants are viewed as continuation patterns, which means the charted instrument tends to break out in the direction of the trend that preceded it.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
His DNA was also recovered in 2023 from a medical instrument used to examine the victim, which had never been tested before.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Teddy Thompson possesses one of those voices, a golden, vivid instrument capable of conjuring joy — though not in excess; he’s English — and caverns of heartache.
From Salon • May 15, 2026
Loeb also was Roosevelt’s instrument for directing their behavior and getting updates on their activities.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
The astronomical clock in any case was so jarred and jiggled by the constant rattle of automobile traffic in the narrow street outside that it was no longer the precision instrument it had been.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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