thermometer
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More broadly, the thermometer climbed above 35 C in regions covering 80 percent of Europe’s residents, some 490 million people.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Rare is the suburban grill chef who doesn’t keep an instant-read thermometer in his apron pocket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
One is the 'feels like', which is how your body feels the heat rather than what the thermometer says.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
Basically, he wrote a hit piece on the thermometer instead of asking why he had a fever.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
He reached inside and took out a glass thing—a sort of tube with a metal rod in it, like a big thermometer.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
Even at sea, thermometers have registered record temperatures.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Today, gallium is widely used in semiconductors, telecommunications equipment, LEDs, laser diodes, solar panels, high performance computing, the aerospace and defense industries, and as a safer alternative to mercury in thermometers.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
One worker said: "We don't seem to have enough thermometers."
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
On Friday evening, Picazo said drone thermometers indicated the tank was at 61 degrees, and the goal was to get the tank down to 50 degrees, which would be its “happy place.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
Telescopes and thermometers do not change the world around them as saws and hammers do, but they change our awareness of the world.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing thermometer
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