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organ

noun

ˈȯr-gən

Definition of organ

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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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 As a result, horologists decided to add sparkle to bridges, plates, and rotors rather than the regulating organ—up until now, that is. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2026 Granduciel is backed on the recording by longtime War on Drugs bandmates Dave Hartley (bass), Robbie Bennett (keyboards), Anthony LaMarca (drums, guitar), Jon Natchez (organ, saxophone) and Eliza Hardy-Jones (vocals). — Spin Staff, SPIN, 9 Sep. 2026 Removing excess cholesterol helps prevent arterial plaque buildup, which can restrict or block blood flow to vital organs such as the heart or brain. — Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2026 More research is needed to determine whether the drug directly caused the reproductive organ changes. — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for organ

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Local newspapers, foremost among them the New York Times, opened up their obituary pages to cover, in humanizing detail, the lives of ordinary people who died in the attacks.

— Robert W. Snyder, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026
The 12 defendants, including Khalifa, were sentenced to death by hanging and fined 500,000 Egyptian pounds ($9,800) by Cairo’s Criminal Court, the al-Ahram newspaper reported.

— Eyad Kourdi, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

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For nearly 50 years, the instrument has provided constant measurements on the ion, electron and cosmic ray environment in deep space.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 5 Sep. 2026
The instrument, brought to the Americas with the African slave trade, echoed another history of endurance, creativity, and cultural inheritance.

— Octavia McBride-Ahebee, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of instrument

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People who might be lucky to have a roof over their heads gathered there to read American books and periodicals, watch American movies, listen to lectures about America, tap their toes to jazz from America.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
It is anticipated that all IEEE periodicals will be included in the Integrity Hub screening by the end of this year.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2026

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Advertisement The war on terror represented a failed effort to impose a unipolar order on the world, one that could no longer rely on the economic instrumentality of globalization alone.

— Faisal Devji, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
Issued by the Wyoming Stable Token Commission, a state instrumentality created under the Wyoming Stable Token Act (2023), FRNT is fully reserved and managed in partnership with Franklin Templeton.

— Jason Brett, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2026

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The results, published this year in the ‘Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise’ journal, ranked a suit blower running cold air first and a cold-air helmet blower second.

— Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The study is published in the journal Applied Physics Letters.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026

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