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His face was lethargically lit with the dimly lit ceiling lamp slightly to his left, the smoke detector's infrared-red beam, and a nonchalance that was hard to place.
Jimothy 2009
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That tracks the lie detector's expanding use overall.
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Tom Whyntie, 24, who works on one of the LHC detector's silicon-tracking devices, said improvising could teach physicists how to build on one another's ideas.
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So the new wand will have a hidden secret - a transformer which steps the detector's battery power up to 100 kilovolts and feeds it to disguised metal electrodes at the end of the wand.
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The tachyon detector's screen is alive for the first time since we lost touch with the mother.
Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985
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It dies a little as Brown reduces the neutrino detector's sensitivity.
Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985
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The implications of the detector's words were unpleasant.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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The implications of the detector's words were unpleasant.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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By January, the soldiers were barely registering surprise at the metal detector's piercing squawk, digging until they ensured an area was clear before moving on through the field.
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Workers walk around the ATLAS detector's calorimeter during the Large Hadron Collider's winter maintenance period.
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