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x-ray

[eks-rey] / ˈɛksˌreɪ /


X ray


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The sleek, futuristic-looking, white and yellow vehicle boasts solar panels on the roof that power its engine but also medical devices from x-ray machines to defibrillators.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

"From the ticket counter line to the x-ray room, there was a measles patient everywhere," he says.

From BBC May 27, 2026

A technical take is more like an x-ray that might pinpoint unhealthy symptoms a bit sooner.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 11, 2026

ARG began the process of identifying which tiles needed the most remediation by doing a photorealistic laser scan of the building that MacLean described as a sort of high-tech x-ray.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 10, 2025

“We won’t know until we x-ray it. It may be worse if you don’t stop moving that leg.”

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

At the facility, a synchrotron particle accelerator generated an intense X ray beam capable of scanning many specimens quickly.

From Science Daily Mar. 10, 2026

Using multi-scale synchrotron X ray techniques and a high-resolution transmission electron microscope, the researchers observed that reactions inside single-crystal particles do not occur evenly.

From Science Daily Dec. 29, 2025

And there can be a bleakness to the light; it’s like an X ray, penetrating everything.

From The New Yorker Sep. 15, 2014

It is only the X ray that can tell us the internal arrangement of the crystal.

From Scientific American Jun. 28, 2012

J. D. Bernal, the crystallographer, would later call them the “most beautiful X ray photographs of any substance ever taken.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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