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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
Why scientists are using pig organs for transplants Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable human organs.
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CBS News, 25 Jan. 2025
People on the carnivore diet generally consume foods including meat, fish, eggs, organ meat, bone marrow, full-fat dairy and animal fats like lard.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
He was best known for his work on the organ, preferring a Lowrey to the rock standard Hammond B-3 of the time.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2025
The mad professor could play organ, piano, accordion, horns — anything to serve the song.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025
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CBS News, 25 Jan. 2025
People on the carnivore diet generally consume foods including meat, fish, eggs, organ meat, bone marrow, full-fat dairy and animal fats like lard.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
He was best known for his work on the organ, preferring a Lowrey to the rock standard Hammond B-3 of the time.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2025
The mad professor could play organ, piano, accordion, horns — anything to serve the song.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for organ
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Chevron chief executive Mike Wirth told the newspaper the company would engage with the White House, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the license should be reconsidered and Trump said the U.S. would likely stop buying oil from Venezuela.—
Trevor Hunnicutt and Julia Symmes Cobb,
USA TODAY,
1 Feb. 2025
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The newspaper said Kuffel's biography and picture had also been removed from the WDJT-TV (Channel 58) website.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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The treatment began with a healing ceremony in the spa’s lush outdoor lounge, where a small orchestra of local instruments re-created the sounds of the jungle, complete with jaguar screams.—
Brittani Sonnenberg,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Feb. 2025
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On all of the other instruments, Africans reinterpreted performance on them.—
Jared Mccallister,
New York Daily News,
31 Jan. 2025
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Their work began last year and continues through March, with the goals of creating a quilt show and adding information to the Mingei’s databases through researching periodicals, magazines, speaking with and learning from quilt historians, and from local quilters.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025
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Johnson, who already has a pickleball business consulting business and a periodical launched focusing on the industry of the sport, will now help bring some organizational order to the growing world of facilities owners.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Amtrak is also not considered a department, agency or instrumentality of the United States Government and its overseeing regulatory body, the OIG, remains open during shutdowns as well.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
20 Dec. 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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Earlier this week, Grigory Mashkov, the Russian Foreign Ministry's special ambassador, told the Russian journal International Affairs that Russia may expand and upgrade its nuclear arsenal if the U.S. pushes ahead with the development of a missile defense system.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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Nearly a quarter of family medicine doctors reported no longer purchasing vaccines because of financial concerns, according to a 2017 study in the journal Academic Pediatrics.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
30 Jan. 2025
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Gillespie is editor-at-large of Reason magazine and Reason.com.—
Nick Gillespie,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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Rod Pyle Rod Pyle is an author, journalist, television producer and editor in chief of Ad Astra magazine for the National Space Society.—
John Kross,
Space.com,
3 Feb. 2025
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The agents also argued more indie films are being packaged and pre-sold to distributors outside of the festival, with Sundance chasing more true discoveries and a slate that leans very indie.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
4 Feb. 2025
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The agents, who are not identified in the suit, said they were instructed this week to fill out a survey to identify their specific role in the past investigations.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2025
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Hamblin said he was inspired to write his book in part because of a fairly new health trend at the time.—
Andrea Kane,
CNN,
29 Jan. 2025
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The fact that his book doesn’t forget the body also means that the poet himself is embodied, experiencing desire, experiencing sensuality.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Organ.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/organ. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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