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: a device that utilizes a flash tube for high-speed illumination (as in photography)
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It’s most effectively rendered in the second act’s rumble — a stark, visceral, and surprising set piece that uses rain and strobe lighting and leaves both cast and audience breathless.
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Each unit has three cameras mounted on a 22-foot mast, floodlights, strobes, speakers for broadcasting warnings, and AI (artificial intelligence) capabilities.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2024
Soft and vulgar as blue light spilling from a strobe.
—Natasha Rao, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2024
The first man and woman from each Era to make it back to shore and insert their strobes at their station win.
—Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Each unit has three cameras mounted on a 22-foot mast, floodlights, strobes, speakers for broadcasting warnings, and AI (artificial intelligence) capabilities.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2024
Soft and vulgar as blue light spilling from a strobe.
—Natasha Rao, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2024
The first man and woman from each Era to make it back to shore and insert their strobes at their station win.
—Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
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“Strobe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strobe. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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strobe
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: a device that produces a very brief strong flash of light (as for photography) and that can be used repeatedly
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