telescope
Example Sentences
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It houses the oldest telescope in the world still in its original setting.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
Local air pollution authorities, possessing little power and even less solid science, singled out oil industries, factories, manufacturers and chemical companies, and they weren’t wrong — just looking through the opposite end of the telescope.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Flipping the telescope to the large end is not unique to this particular cohort, nor is it anything to criticize or demonize.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026
By combining telescope observations with detailed models of planetary interiors and atmospheres, they were able to infer what is happening deep inside the planet.
From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026
Both telescope and microscope produced new knowledge, but in the seventeenth century only the telescope directly endangered the existing order.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
