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as in newspaper
a publication that appears at regular intervals
that newspaper is intended as an organ for the whole university community
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as in instrument
something used to achieve an end
uses the business as an organ to fund a variety of political and social causes
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Recent Examples of organ
Later, the cathedral’s grand organ – France’s largest instrument complete with its 8,000 pipes and five keyboards – was played once more.
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Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.
—Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
As a result, this causes severe pain, anemia, organ damage and infections.
—Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
Rapamycin, a drug typically used to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients, has gained attention recently for its potential anti-aging properties.
—Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 27 Nov. 2024
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Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.
—Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
As a result, this causes severe pain, anemia, organ damage and infections.
—Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
Rapamycin, a drug typically used to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients, has gained attention recently for its potential anti-aging properties.
—Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 27 Nov. 2024
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Authorities said he was beaten with a blunt instrument, but there were no details about a suspect, the newspaper reported.Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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Thomas’ head was even with the tight end’s head jumping for the ball in this photo that was in the newspaper.Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 9 Dec. 2024
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Some, like Kouyaté, play a xylophone-like instrument called the balafon.Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
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Swift, who performs some songs on the piano and some on the guitar at most of her concerts, was ready to play when the instrument suddenly made a noise.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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Less than a decade after Mao’s death, periodicals filled with dueling essays on contentious questions such as the relevance of Karl Marx’s theory of alienation and whether traditional Confucianism impeded China’s modernization.Julian Gewirtz, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2022
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Daily newspapers ran no images, and the technology to reproduce photographs in books or periodicals was still 40 years away.Andrea Kaston Tange, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
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But the instrumentality of so many of his characters seems to have reached a nadir in The City and Its Uncertain Walls.Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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This dilemma can be solved in only one way, by the birth of a new faith, adjusted in its instrumentalities to the needs of the new century, but preserving the ultimate objectives of the old.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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Since last year, a series of reviews, editorials, and perspective papers, mostly published in obesity journals, have explored this very question.Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
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In most circumstances, something like a new journal or suitcase will do the trick.Will McGough, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Newsweek's Workplaces Editor Aman Kidwai moderated the discussion at the magazine's office at One World Trade Center in New York City.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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Corinne has also made a name for herself as a model, having walked in fashion shows for major designers such as Sherri Hill and Dolce & Gabbana, as well as gracing the cover of Cheerleader magazine in 2011.Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 11 Dec. 2024
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Smirnov’s tenure as a confidential source for the FBI ended in spectacular fashion in February, with a grand jury in L.A. charging him with obstructing justice and lying to federal agents.Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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The money is earmarked for further investment in the technology underpinning the platform – including features such as artificial intelligence agents that support sellers – and to put staff on the ground in its biggest markets, such as the US and the Middle East.David Prosser, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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The psychological thriller, adapted from a book of the same name, follows a crime that shatters a decades-long friendship of three women.Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2024
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In all, Hill has written or helped with 14 books on various subjects from basketball to murder, the Belle of Louisville and gardening.Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Organ.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/organ. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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