1
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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2
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 Prostate Cancer Often Presents Without Symptoms In the early stages of prostate cancer, the disease is generally confined to the prostate, so the tumor does not block or compress any nearby organs—nor cause any symptoms, Eswara explained.
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Jenna Anderson, Health, 18 Sep. 2025
The organ donation system, as this decertification shows, is in need of reform and updating, said Arthur Caplan, founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Investigations into organ procurement In July, HHS announced its intention to fix the nation’s organ donation system.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
This is also not including organ meat.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 18 Sep. 2025
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Jenna Anderson, Health, 18 Sep. 2025
The organ donation system, as this decertification shows, is in need of reform and updating, said Arthur Caplan, founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Investigations into organ procurement In July, HHS announced its intention to fix the nation’s organ donation system.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
This is also not including organ meat.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for organ
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This story is full of secrets — the heroine has multiple identities as a newspaper editor and club owner, a Latina and a witch, passing as a mundane white woman in an era when even that isn’t especially safe.—
Lia Amador,
PEOPLE,
20 Sep. 2025
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And that film was shown repeatedly on television, while still images blanketed newspapers.—
Time,
Time,
20 Sep. 2025
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More than 100 Jilin remote sensing satellites have been launched, designed to acquire information from space via remote instruments.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Merin wrote in the complaint that Gurich grabbed a writing instrument attached to an electronic signature machine, pulling the writing instrument out of Thimmhardy’s right hand and yanking the electronic signature machine off the desk.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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This free periodical focuses on the brand’s philosophy of making everyday life better and more comfortable for everyone and is distributed in its stores.—
Roxanne Robinson,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Founded by Jonathan Blount, Cecil Hollingsworth, Edward Lewis and Clarence O. Smith, ESSENCE was among the first major periodicals dedicated to celebrating the interior lives, aspirations and complexities of modern Black women.—
Essence,
Essence,
7 Aug. 2025
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They are left wielding the tools of instrumentality: in-groups and cliques, buying effort through more money, coercive employment agreements and suits against whistleblowers.—
Dave Winsborough,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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Holding the weight of cotton’s influence on the world, and thus the instrumentality of Black labor, is painful, yet necessary work.—
Cierra Black,
Essence,
9 July 2025
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In 2018, a survey of first-time moms conducted as part of a study published in the journal Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare highlighted the prevalence of low confidence, high stress and symptoms of depression.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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The study was published in the journal Nature Communications.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Sep. 2025
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The future of this rapidly expanding means of devising software by tapping into the generative capabilities of modern-era AI, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, Grok, Gemini, and other large language models, will be discussed.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Such compounds can form by other means, such as, for example, the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide.—
Dirk Schulze-Makuch,
Big Think,
17 Sep. 2025
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The senior editor for the free speech absolutist Reason magazine said her firing was fully justified as being due to journalistic malpractice.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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The team analyzed data collected from 2003 to 2023 from more than 236,000 Americans as part of the American Time Use Survey; the data included how often participants read physical books, magazines, newspapers, or listened to audio and electronic books on an average day.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
16 Sep. 2025
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In a video taken by a security camera at his mother's driveway, obtained by ABC News, a federal agent can be heard asking Gamez Lira to turn off the engine and to not resist.—
Armando Garcia,
ABC News,
18 Sep. 2025
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The Blackhawks and Kaiser’s agent had been negotiating for some time this offseason, but neither side had been in a rush, with the 23-year-old Kaiser having no arbitration rights.—
Scott Powers,
New York Times,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Organ.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/organ. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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