lasers

plural of laser
as in spotlights
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 lasers There was a defiant mood in the crowd, with a handful of protesters targeting the police with lasers. — Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026 The company’s latest hardware, called Helios, rotates the ions around a ring, selectively shifting the appropriate ones into one of two arms where measurements and operations of the ions’ quantum states can be performed using lasers. — ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026 The project represents a €6 million (approximately $6,740,400) investment to develop femtosecond lasers. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 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 Burning fireballs, liquids, lasers and ferrofluid were also filmed to provide starting points for the microscopic effects. — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026 Where previous attempts required building arrays of external lasers that had to be connected to processing chips, Lightmatter Guide chips are built with its Very Large Scale Photonics light engine on board. — Rob Pegoraro, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 For more serious scarring, dermatologists can recommend more aggressive treatments such as lasers that probe deeper into the skin. — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 Two to three suspects demanded victims' belongings at gunpoint using firearms equipped with lasers, police said. — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lasers
Noun
  • Using spotlights, strobe lights, fire and fireworks, the technical elements offered a dramatic visual display that blended seamlessly with the songs.
    — Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Tallinn’s Critics’ Picks strand spotlights films with a clear artistic point of view and a fresh take on storytelling, including work that wrestles with genre, cinema’s past and the social issues of the moment.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
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  • At its heart, the greatest album of all time beams with try-hard enthusiasm for popcraft—but don’t try telling Stel that.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026
  • These cataclysmic explosions spray intense radiation and beams of energy through the universe at close to the speed of light.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

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“Lasers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lasers. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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