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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

  • That tracks the lie detector's expanding use overall.

    The Polygraph Paradox 2008

  • 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.

    Two Protons Walk Into a Black Hole, 2008

  • 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.

    Boing Boing: July 31, 2005 - August 6, 2005 Archives 2005

  • The tachyon detector's screen is alive for the first time since we lost touch with the mother.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

  • It dies a little as Brown reduces the neutrino detector's sensitivity.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

  • The implications of the detector's words were unpleasant.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

  • The implications of the detector's words were unpleasant.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

  • 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.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • Workers walk around the ATLAS detector's calorimeter during the Large Hadron Collider's winter maintenance period.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

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