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  • After my beacon's ready to fire off, I'll make that rope we talked of.

    The Clique 2010

  • One homing beacon might be too slight for a ship to detect from space, but if the stones are still clustered together, the beacon's power is magnified exponentially.

    Massage 2010

  • Volunteers from the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation, which aids the Air Force in interpreting the site, greet visitors and share the beacon's history.

    A Beacon on the Cape Restored 2009

  • It's conceivable that lightning disrupted the beacon's signal.

    Death In The Mountains: How A Vip Jet Strayed 2008

  • He leaves silently, but its as if a beacon's gone off.

    Three Young Chadian Women Zach Center 2006

  • He leaves silently, but its as if a beacon's gone off.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Zach Center 2006

  • The beacon's first brilliant shafts of light have penetrated the dark fibers of the internet, struck deep into the souls of the indigenous British, Welsh and Scottish.

    The Case for Civil War in Britain... Lionheart 2007

  • These beacon's are wonderful devices, they beep electronically.

    CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2003 2003

  • Emerging with toolbox in hand, he returned to the opening and cracked the beacon's seal.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • As with any similar device, the beacon's internal components were solid: drawn, painted, flashed, or strobed in place.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

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