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
Ultimate donation California, the most populous state, has one of the nation’s lowest organ donor registration percentages.
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Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2025
And Framingham has really been a leader all along in understanding the process of aging in every organ system in the body.
—Veronique Greenwood, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
According to state officials, deer and turkeys feeding in affected zones ingest the chemicals, resulting in detectable PFAS levels in their meat and organs that can pose a health risk if consumed.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Evidence shows that nitrates help relax and dilate blood vessels, increasing blood flow and oxygen to your heart, brain, and other organs and tissues.
—Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 4 Nov. 2025
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Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2025
And Framingham has really been a leader all along in understanding the process of aging in every organ system in the body.
—Veronique Greenwood, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
According to state officials, deer and turkeys feeding in affected zones ingest the chemicals, resulting in detectable PFAS levels in their meat and organs that can pose a health risk if consumed.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Evidence shows that nitrates help relax and dilate blood vessels, increasing blood flow and oxygen to your heart, brain, and other organs and tissues.
—Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 4 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for organ
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Formal inquiries began after complaints that personal information shared only in private realms was routinely exposed on the front pages of national newspapers, causing distress and compromising the safety of those targeted.—
Charlotte Reck,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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Organic mulches include straw, pine needles, wood chips and bark, shredded leaves, and layers of newspaper.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
8 Nov. 2025
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But a team of Australian researchers created an AI algorithm that fixes the problem — a major relief for the scientific community, which hopes to use the instrument to search for exoplanets around stars in our Milky Way galaxy.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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In the year leading up to March 2024, 570 homicides took place in England and Wales, according to ONS, with 262 homicides committed using a knife or other sharp instrument.—
Catherine Nicholls,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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Studies on bohemianism tend to emphasize the primacy of cities, where radical and eclectic ideas were shared through newspapers, literary periodicals, coffeehouses, bars, cafés, bookstores, and art galleries.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Oct. 2025
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Written and directed by Mickey Reece (Climate of the Hunter, Mickey Reece’s Alien), Every Heavy Thing stars Josh Fadem (Twin Peaks, Better Call Saul, 30 Rock) as a mild-mannered ad salesperson for an online periodical, who witnesses a murder and spirals into paranoia.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
8 Oct. 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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The details of the team’s research were published in the journal Nature Communications.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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Graham is the lead author of a study about the unprecedented phenomenon that published Tuesday in the journal Nature Astronomy.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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The problem is that the objective optimized by the algorithm is good for the people who control the means of prediction…but not good for the rest of society.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Then Vice President Cheney condemned those behind the torture scandal, while at the same time defending water-boarding as a useful means of extracting vital intelligence (many intelligence experts say water-boarding is torture, and its victims will say anything to avoid further abuse).—
Ben Wedeman,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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Her mother, also named Sally Kirkland, was a fashion editor at Vogue and LIFE magazines.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
11 Nov. 2025
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The buildout is sometimes delayed by regulations like mandates that cables run underground in bird habitats, Down To Earth magazine reported.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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The woman, Marimar Martinez, is accused of closely pursuing the agent and ramming into his car.—
Omar Jimenez,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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The team settled for adding TE Josh Whyle and defensive lineman Arron Mosby from the practice squad to the active roster, but Green Bay is apparently in on one prominent free-agent defensive back as well.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Organ.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/organ. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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