thermometer
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"Imagine TRPM8 as a microscopic thermometer inside your body," said Hyuk-Joon Lee, a postdoctoral fellow in Seok-Yong Lee's laboratory at Duke University.
From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026
"How pitiful," he said, lowering a thermometer into the water.
From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026
A separate yellow warning for low temperatures and ice has been issued for a wide area, with the thermometer expected to drop to between -2C and -4C.
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026
The walls are almost entirely covered in Dodgers memorabilia: yearbooks, programs, newspapers, magazine covers, advertisements, record albums, even a thermometer reading “1988 World Champions,” with portraits of Vin Scully, Don Drysdale and Ross Porter.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025
The temperatures inched just above freezing according to a thermometer outside the kolkhoz office.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
Vocabulary lists containing thermometer
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