x-ray
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Fontaine examines the x-ray of his broken leg while in hospital in 1962.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Many have dreamt about finding this critical point but the means have not been available before the development of the x-ray lasers."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026
"I don't see an ICE agent looking at an x-ray machine, because you're not trained in that," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."
From Barron's ● Mar. 22, 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
I tried to look at Salim riding in his pod with x-ray eyes but I could only see figures in the pod, dark shadows, turning to have their souvenir photo taken.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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These X ray scans allow scientists to examine the physical structure and form of insects, an area of research known as morphology.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026
To examine those features, the team used CT scanning technology, assembling a stack of X ray images into a detailed three dimensional model.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026
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
They had discovered the X ray, the cathode ray, the electron, and radioactivity, invented the ohm, the watt, the Kelvin, the joule, the amp, and the little erg.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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