a device that produces a narrow and powerful stream of light that has many special uses in medicine, industry, etc.
doctors using a laser to perform delicate eye surgery
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Recent Examples of laserThe company rates the series at up to 1,800 lumens with a maximum beam distance of 215 meters; ArkTac Ultra adds a green laser alongside UV and red-light functions.—
Connie Etemadi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Oct. 2026 Tiny droplets of the molten tin are fired out of a cannon into a vacuum chamber, where they are shot—sixty thousand times a second—by unerring lasers.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2026 Its triple-laser (RGB) light source is reported capable of putting out a massive 6,000 ISO lumens.—New Atlas,
19 Oct. 2026 Burning fireballs, liquids, lasers and ferrofluid were also filmed to provide starting points for the microscopic effects.—
Davide Abbatescianni,
Variety,
18 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for laser
And spare furnishings spotlight craft—from the dining area’s custom walnut table to the stairwell’s Isamu Noguchi pendant.
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Elizabeth Fazzare,
Architectural Digest,
22 Oct. 2026
Nobody Wants This season three tones down its exploration of Judaism and Jewish culture significantly — like, to the extent that Christmas traditions get a more elaborate episode spotlight than any Jewish holiday does.
By changing its flight attitude, the platform could redirect the radar beam toward different sectors without depending entirely on a mechanically rotating antenna.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2026
In work that would delight any Star Wars fan, scientists have now created an antenna from a plasma beam.