| 单词 | device |
| 例句 | Shin did not know it, but to pass safely through the fence he needed a device that could shunt the flow of current from the fence to the ground. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It’s the way civilized man now encumbers his territory, not with great walls or stretches of wire but with a single well-placed device, a neat bundling with the workings of a mind. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked around, spotted the other hulking device on the ground where Alec had dropped it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The Talking Robot was a tour de force, a thoroughly impractical device, possessing publicity value only. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Not included are the various GPS and other devices Jim played around with. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Some examples are warning devices, bells, whistles, horns, sirens, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z George Weston, after all, was only a man—poor thing—and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learned, with reason and futility, to fear. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z They are inundated with music emitting from a wide array of electronic devices, toys, and computers offering a limitless number of musical selections. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z There were heraldic devices worked or stamped on the sides—enormous Mack eagles with two heads perhaps, or wyverns, or lances, or oak trees, or punning signs which referred to the names of the owners. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Triggering the device, a portal opened, an electric blue rectangle. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z While Mrs. Shannon shows the rest of the class how to make paper snowflakes, Catherine and I sit together in front of the one clunky classroom computer and do Web searches on communication devices. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The bad news was that nearly a decade into two conflicts characterized by surprise attacks and hidden explosive devices, those injuries were plentiful and grave. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “You had that little electronic device that made the guards think Finn’s voice was a recording,” Emma added excitedly. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I’d read them in dentists’ offices, and sometimes on planes; I’d bought them to take to hotel rooms, a device to fill in empty time while I was waiting for Luke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the Pepettes spent as much as $100 of their own money to make an individual sign, decorating it with twinkling lights and other attention-getting devices. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Desperate for a break, the private detectives decided to install a listening device to eavesdrop on Rose and her boyfriend. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mark gripped the end of the grappling device just as it pulled him off his feet, yanking him skyward. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The transmitting device Genly Ai has now turned over to the Thirty-Three, in Obsle’s care, is not going to change any minds. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The married rebels barely had time to take leave of their wives, whom they left to their own devices. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Mark let go of the device just before he hit the sharp corner of the slowly rising hatch door, leaping to catch Alec’s hand and grab at the metal with his other. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z When left to its own devices, it sticks up and makes me look as if I have been set afire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We watched him lay out his poncho and connect his Claymores to their firing devices. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The device that told him his height above the ground. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z A few weeks earlier they had installed listening devices on two phones, and one device wasn’t working. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In which codes, invisible ink, hidden messages, and other devices are put to good use. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The happy end brought about by a divinity, the deus ex machina, is a common device with Euripides alone of the three tragic poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Its devices typically were more sophisticated and complicated than those of Los Alamos, and therefore harder to perfect via theoretical modeling rather than testing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z You were left to your own devices or so you thought until you were at your very wits’ end, at which time she would step in and rescue you. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He motioned to the time travel device dangling from TimeStar’s belt. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I bet I’ll be the only person laughing in the classroom since Arthur’s ridiculous but super-helpful mnemonic devices will lead me to victory. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The devices chug-chug-chugged around the clock, but competition for computing time on the machines was fierce. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Byrnes, who up to then had viewed the atomic bomb largely as an abstract device useful for bargaining with the Russians, would recall that Oppenheimer’s astonishing figures left him “thoroughly frightened.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Every third or fourth man carried a Claymore antipersonnel mine—3.5 pounds with its firing device. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pleased to finally meet you, Todd,” Doctor Snow says, smiling big and sitting down on the bed and taking a device outta his front shirt pocket. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Duke knows the microchip is really a listening device. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He and a number of others began to teach themselves how to use this strange new device. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z After removing each strip, Dr. Grossman passed it through a meshing device that perforated it with tiny holes so that it could be stretched to cover a larger area. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The Linotype machine resembled a medieval torture device with its hulking metal form and the wisps of steam curling from the cauldron of molten lead in its core. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The SIM like to hide little devices in houses so they can listen in on what you say. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The painter chose to represent a dramatic moment—the instant when survivors regain hope of rescue—but he conveyed their desperate situation through an array of painterly devices. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z We live in the midst of explosive devices; we are mined. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Bulky, with a strap to hang around your neck and a slim slot along its front, it was the kind of device that seemed ancient. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Hence some stabilizing device must have been essential not only for the Austronesian expansion through Indonesia but even for the initial colonization of Taiwan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Leaving her sister to her own devices, Amy proceeded to enjoy herself to her heart’s content. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z When a player made a move, he depressed a button on top of his clock, which stopped his device and started his opponent’s. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “They're just torture devices invented by men or mothers or something.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t believe that my particular body structure is easily adaptable to that type of device,” Ignatius observed, a gimlet eye fixed upon the rusting stool. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Branches reached for him, and he tried again, pressing the device against his body for leverage, then pushing the button hard. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Anyone might see through the watch business—it is a common enough device in detective stories. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he made contact with the Russian, however, Saxe had to learn how to handle something much more delicate: the T-50 subminiature camera, a tiny device fitted inside a brand-name pen. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Shay winked, pushed a button, and said, “Hey, it’s me, Shay. No, I’m sorry, Dr. Cable’s busy. Doing what? Well, it’s complicated . She muted the device. “Shouldn’t you be rescuing people or something, Tally? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Through the windows in those doors I see the Weapons Lab, the even rows of machinery and dark devices and serum vials, lit from beneath like they’re on display. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And the bird stared through the scrying device, right into Luna’s eye. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Their kite shields all bore the same device: a crystal sword shining in the darkness, the ancient badge of those the small- folk called Swords. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Throughout the two months that the innovative device operated, it used at least a half-million pounds of ice. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He talks about them all the time and wants to be just like them, with their cool apartments in the upper air and their devices for hovering. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As a military man, he was skeptical about explosive devices that were too powerful to serve as practical weapons, and less impressed than Truman with the idea that bigger was invariably better. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Bell thought he could modify the device to find the bullet in Garfield's body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z When that wind blew, the simplest of devices—from lucifer matches to lantern-slides—would no longer function. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I showed him the listening devices Hoagland had installed in the drop ceiling. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russians insisted that a lighting fixture above the stage be taken apart to see if there was an electronic device hidden there that might be affecting Spassky’s play. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Moody, left to his own devices, had just shut his locker and was headed home when he heard someone calling his name. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Another mechanical piece has to do with the way our brains get stimulated by the mere act of touching the device and, in doing so, causing something to happen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I had a device I wanted to try, and put some hickory sticks in a tin can and set it to boiling while I fixed dinner. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The fourth box contained dynamite, which was disguised to look like lumps of coal, incendiary pencils, timing devices, fuses, primers, wire, screws, and sulfuric acid. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z She said, “This device is fine as far as I can tell. There’s no damage to it. All interior connections and circuits—if that’s what you even call parts this advanced—haven’t been disturbed.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In English, as Ms. Keaton reviews rhetorical devices, I’m thinking: Tats, how could you? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He stared at the device, and Moss watched him inspect it, tracing the edge of it with his gaze. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I found an expert to testify that the bomb was a timed device and not intended to kill on contact. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was stunned by Crocker’s question, which hinted at the ease with which he could extract funds for a device with presumed, but far from certain, medical applications. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The idea that Leo might attack the statue with his gaming device was enough to snap Annabeth out of her shock. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Yet transforming blackboard scribbles into a working device was not so simple a matter, as Szilard had understood. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And could the United States glean enough intelligence from its $20 million device to head off its Soviet adversary and avert a nuclear war? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z One of the best examples of this involved a new British coding device called a Pletts Cryptograph. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She presses the button on the side of the device and tosses it across the alley, underhand. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It may not be the most original device I've seen, but it's very, very effective. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At the time, statutes governing electronic surveillance were nebulous, and Burns was an avid user of a Dictograph—a primitive listening device that could be concealed in anything from a clock to a chandelier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z At least I won’t have to actually “listen” to the lectures, since the En Cognito device that puts us to sleep is also programmed to embed those topics directly into our brains. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Sticky, remember when he told us the Whisperer was going to be a ‘healing device’ that would bring peace to thousands of troubled minds?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Braced for cobwebs and torture devices, Kendra was relieved to find that the attic was a cheerful playroom. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z This girl has a paper on genocide to write and last week’s Trig problems, and a catch-up test about literary devices in some stupid story. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z He flipped a switch and brought the navigation device online. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Chief Mpondombini was also annoyed, and left us to our own devices. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To Szilard, his device was one of many ideas that might or might not work; to Ernest Lawrence, it was an idea upon which to build a career. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Merely having a bigger, faster, more powerful device for doing something is no guarantee of ready acceptance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Its cloaking device was still engaged and its shields were up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There Oppenheimer delivered an impressively detailed explication of atomic bomb physics, along with his own rough estimate that 100 kilograms of U-235—that is, 220 pounds—would be enough for a practical device. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "I devised a special retrieval device," Freak says. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z I recognized the countless devices hanging from the belt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z This was Great Britain’s announcement that it would test its first thermonuclear device over Christmas Island that spring. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They had worked hard to eradicate customs that had begun to corrupt their society, banning even seemingly benign diversions such as a gaming machine, a simple gambling device that spit out candy to its winners. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Long ragged tails streamed behind them like flickering flames, and in place of a lord's sigil they bore the device of a god: the burning heart of the Lord of Light. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I can connect the device to a computer and download any song I want. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The device bounced off my shoulder and landed in my lap. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Behind him, the sheep, left to their own devices, decide to wander through the open gate into the field beyond. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Kadalyi-Polokov said, switching on and off the miniaturized triggering and aiming device which he held in the palm of his hand. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z According to an article published in the New York Times, mobile phone companies, going back as far as the early 1980s, openly marketed the devices for use by drivers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Think of your mind as one of these,” she had said, and the sound of the device pleased Moss. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And: People can walk away from their devices. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Liddy refused to put the lead hunk into his shoe—the limp-inducing device was part of his cover, designed to distract passersby from his face, but it was just too painful. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He winked and unclipped the time travel device from his belt, made adjustments. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He predicted GPS navigation devices for cars before anybody else, too. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Cries of human jubilation and “indescribable noise-making devices” sounded off into the night. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The android dropped the device and, with a snarl, grabbed with both hands for Rick’s throat. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z But a lie is a device for profit or escape. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The cam allows the jumar to slide upward without hindrance, but it pinches the rope securely when the device is weighted. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “If you want that device to work, perhaps you should try a musical invocation.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He watched as Kaisha ducked under one of the cop’s arms and burst through the device, leaping over Reg and dropping down on her hands and knees where Moss had been. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z My dad had practically poisoned her, twisting her guts into an explosive device. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z And with that he bade Halbarad unfurl the great standard which he had brought; and behold! it was black, and if there was any device upon it, it was hidden in the darkness. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The device raised a clanging racket, sounding, Pollard remembered later, “like all hell breaking loose.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At midday, she toasted a cheese sandwich in her mother’s blackened old device that hung by the fire. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z As flobberworms flourished best if left to their own devices, it was the easiest exam any of them had ever taken, and also gave Harry, Ron, and Hermione plenty of opportunity to speak to Hagrid. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z They’re both anxious to get here and see the device for themselves, so while we wait, Mrs. V suggests that we just keep programming it, adding more and more. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z She waved cheerfully at the volunteer putting the bottles into the warming device, and the young girl grinned and waved back. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He picks up the instrument and opens it to find an exquisite system of cogs and wheels turning inside, resulting in a mechanical device that is capable of telling time. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “It’s not a he; it’s an it. It’s a mechanical device, and, as such, has no name.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z She rendered goat fat into something like butter, and pulverized antelope meat into hamburgers with a device I think had been rigged from the propeller of a motorboat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z At the first checkpoint, each indent was given a thorough scan with a brand-new Metadetector to make sure they weren’t hiding any electronic devices on or in their persons. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Moreover, absent from Papin’s design was a simple device employed by Savery: the use of a spray of water over the cylinder to cool it in order to speed the condensation of the steam. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One was a bronze chair with a bunch of electrical wires attached to it, like some kind of torture device. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A few years earlier, Bouza had written a book in which he called abortion “arguably the only effective crime-prevention device adopted in this nation since the late 1960s.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Bell held the telephone receiver to his ear, listening for the same sound he'd heard in his tests when the device detected a metal bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z For Alex it was an eerie experience, tiptoeing behind the other four men, watching as they dismantled the two devices, using cigarette smoke to expose the otherwise invisible beam. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I trotted off to find my friends and left Qareeb to his own devices. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “He says we can see him tomorrow. Ah! That’s a clever device.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I did have one device for helping me move over to the Agena. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look it up on that mobile device of yours.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z I took his device, which I wasn’t familiar with, but figured out pretty quickly, and set everything up. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In 1996 the Wall Street Journal ran a splendid article on the nuisance of satellite navigation devices, cellphones, and other such appliances in the wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The young man interviewed him on a device Schieffer did not recognize and then asked if he could take his picture. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z He held the device out in front of him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The inventors hoped that if they improved their device, it would be a valuable tool for all surgeons. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The freerider, a small man in dented plate without device, duly appeared at the west end of the yard, but of his opponent there was no sign. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Considering the number of such devices that are in use, and the scarcity of warnings such as this, do we need to wonder why our public waters are contaminated? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The devices that use standard computer keyboards wouldn’t work. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z For water they made a sheet of plastic into a dew-gathering device and for food they ate lizards. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Lister developed a device to spray the acid solution in the air around an open wound when surgeons operated and changed dressings. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z No matter what sound-making device is placed at their disposal, creatures in general do a great deal of gabbling, and it requires long patience and observation to edit out the parts lacking syntax and sense. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a technician comes in, pushing a small device the size of a desktop computer printer on a trolley. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Everyone seemed to want to get away from the spot where the guards had found the device. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z We decided to test two of our best mixtures inside devices we hoped resembled rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Yet this chemical, a form of benzene hexachloride, is much used in vaporizers, devices that pour a stream of volatilized insecticide vapor into homes, offices, restaurants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Another link led me to an image of a contraption made of springs that looked like a torture device. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Broadly, the carriers argued that general education was sufficient to remind motorists about the risks of getting distracted by their devices. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The trip wire activated a stun grenade—a small device filled with a mixture of magnesium powder and mercury fulminate. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Murray also advocated development of a “clean bomb”—a device that could somehow deliver the destructive force of a nuclear blast minus the fallout. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Would it not be logical to assume that such a device could only have been manufactured by a watchmaker? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z So they decided to hide voice-activated devices around the Oval Office, and under the table in the Cabinet Room. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z If I tried to escape, remove the anklet, or cause trouble of any kind, the device was capable of delivering a paralyzing electrical shock. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Some alleged calendrical devices may just possibly be due to chance—an accidental alignment of window and niche on June 21, say. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For such a driver, says Dr. Greenfield, the act of picking up the device becomes primitive, bypassing higher- level thinking. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Good,” Doctor Snow says, placing the end of the device on another part of my chest. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Livingston figured instead that Edlefsen had merely created heavy ions from the atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen left inside the device by poor evacuation technique. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The article also described several people who had got lost with satellite navigation devices. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z And so, as powerful a draw as television remains, our modern devices command our attention like nothing before. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She holds up her left wrist, where a device has been cuffed. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She made the kid who was hiding in the back corner leave, like Annabelle had an explosive device strapped to her chest. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z For the physicists of the atomic bomb program, Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945, complicated the moral and ethical issues connected with the device they had invented. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For one, the way he describes and breaks down our day-to-day interaction with our devices is extremely resonant. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Mrs. Harper told us that when she was younger and Pluto was still a planet, the mnemonic device they used was “My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z As for Alvarez’s linear accelerator, Lawrence did not even submit an estimate—the device was too novel even to calculate a rough construction budget. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And from his own pocket he would distribute the devices to his patients himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Instead, it used stepping switches, electronic devices that scrambled the message in baffling ways. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Twelve days later, on the evening of July 26, the men were ready to try the device on Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “A plumping mill is a mechanical device run by water power. It lifts a hammer and drops it.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been left to his own devices. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I mean...I’d like it if all of you started using Tor, maybe set up some two-factor authentication on your devices, took some steps to protect your own privacy.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Put another way: Turn off the device for a sustained period— whether hours or days. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Karhiders do not read much as a rule, and prefer their news and literature heard not seen; books and televising devices are less common than radios, and newspapers don’t exist. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z What he desperately needed was a method of notation that you could read and turn into singing at sight, and he set about developing this miraculous time-saving device. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A solar still is a device to produce fresh water from salt water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In between marathon bicycle rides I spend most of my time taking care of chickens, learning how to wire up small explosive devices, and trying hard not to suddenly scream my head off with nerves. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He wondered about watching an adult movie, but the pay-per-view device by the phone needed a credit card. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Light here serves as a device to create the convincing illusion that David is standing before us. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a device known as a ‘compass’—a graduated metal instrument that could be used as a calculator. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Greater encouragement came from Rowan Gaither, whose businessman’s soul was stirred by a device he thought might have great commercial possibilities. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The moment the first dropcop had entered my apartment, an incendiary device had detonated inside my computer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He was tempted to go to school and leave her to her own devices. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The CIA had developed this suicide device at the cost of $3 million. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z No one would confuse the women who used mechanical calculators to process research data with the room-sized electronic devices that performed the same function. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The blast proved the feasibility of a controlled thermonuclear device so decisively that Teller claimed paternity immediately, wiring back to Los Alamos, “It’s a boy.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A small refrigerator is plugged into an adapter that has six different electrical devices all feeding into one outlet. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He let go of the device with his left hand, felt along the side until he found the trigger again, fingered his way to where he knew the green button to be. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Heaven help me, this is what we’ve come to. Take down my cell phone number. The very first sign of trouble, ye text me your coordinates and I’ll be right there, tracking device or not.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z There are lots of other mnemonic devices, too. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “An excellent device, worthy of a playwright” His praise was like honey to a bee, and I sucked it up. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He dragged out some communication device, pulled up an antenna, and got it to operate. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Some sort of elevator device lifts the craft slowly up through the levels. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Home stills were as illegal as the southern moonshine-making devices, but Americans everywhere found that they could buy them in many hardware stores. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He shined the flashlight once again on the cracked workpad, then tossed the device to the other side of the room. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z And the parallel stems from a concept that is quite counterintuitive: the Internet, smartphones, and other devices are addictive because they often deliver us worthless information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was a device that looked like an inverted umbrella with a good-sized catchment pouch and a connecting rubber tube. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Eight years earlier, American agents had discovered "bugs," or tiny listening devices, embedded inside the Great Seal of the United States in the US ambassador's office. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But the opportunity for risk was growing, given the exploding power of devices. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Appreciating the treelike nature of a text can also help you understand one of the few devices available in nontechnical prose to visually mark the structure of discourse: the paragraph break. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drink between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z At times like these I need an air sickness bag and an oxygen mask and a chair cushion that doubles as a flotation device. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “Yeah. My parents just told us,” Oliver said into his device. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Had grown comfortable with the weight of the device that had messed up the town. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The way he thinks about it is that even the smallest click of a device gives a little rush, a tiny dopamine squirt. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Galileo also exhibited sunspots during his time in Rome, using the now standard device of projecting the image of the Sun through a telescope on to a white screen. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Lawrence and Livingston finally achieved resonant acceleration with this device. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Neither do the ads for an electronic device that dispenses lindane fumes — we are told that it is safe and odorless. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z With the richness of speech, and all our new devices for communication, why would we want to release odors into the air to convey information about anything? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z First, she thought, a snack Shoving her scrying device into her pocket, Sister Ignatia climbed up to the branch with the starling nest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Most famously, she improved on the design of the “hot comb,” a device for straightening hair. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Farmer remembered all of his patients—he kept track of their faces and quirks and the dates he had seen them, using mnemonic devices, just like his flash cards in medical school. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z When I first heard of this monastery I laughed out loud, but now the image of dot-com moguls scrubbing for the good of their souls presents itself as a psychic flotation device. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z With my cloaking device engaged, I selected the nearest instance of the city and landed the Vonnegut just outside the wall of its dome, watching my scopes for other ships. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Third, there must be ways of establishing priority—Tartaglia’s coded poem is a device to demonstrate that he already has the solution even though he is keeping it secret. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was a bright yellow, not the rich gold of Renly's standards, and the device it bore was red, though she could not make out its shape. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I had been in what is called a maze, a device to test intelligence and memory. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z In the early third century Herophilus of Chalcedon, the brilliant Alexandrian anatomist, invented a device for timing the pulse. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Radar was leaning against Ben’s locker, typing into a handheld device. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Some have to do with the nature of the information the devices deliver—the value, say, of personal information or the value of good news versus bad news. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In fact, within the thermonuclear research community, Livermore’s reputation was marred by the almost comic fizzles of the first devices it readied for testing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I set the small device up on a shelf that was about eye level and began to fuss with its buttons, searching for the ON switch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, hidden from the teachers, a roaring trade in talismans, amulets, and other protective devices was sweeping the school. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It was a clock-shaped device of bright gold, with a crystal face uppermost. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He pulled the tiny device out of his pocket. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Within the fair’s buildings visitors encountered devices and concepts new to them and to the world. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He took a step towards them, and even in the gloom he recognized the devices on their shields. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “This will inject you with a tracking device that will be activated only if you are reported missing. Just a precaution.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was an early recording device, patented in 1857 by a Frenchman, that captured sound and then, through a mechanical arm, transcribed it onto a piece of paper. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Upon their shields they bore a strange device: a small white hand in the centre of a black field; on the front of their iron helms was set an S-rune, wrought of some white metal. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He developed a small device to be sent to the planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We many of us had escaped, and so, upon the town’s falling, we would be conveyed to our former masters—at which thought, my spirits froze, thinking upon Mr. Sharpe and his devices. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Once my modifications are complete, the Whisperer will become a wondrous healing device, boys—a device capable of curing maladies of the mind. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s embarrassing to spend all your time with a seven-year-old girl, but Jimmy is always fiddling with his mechanical devices, so what am I supposed to do? Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the speed at which a device delivers information can dictate how drawn we are to it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z What the Romans would have done left to their own devices, Nico didn’t know. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z But the new scale, the more modern analytical device, had been there already; no lag had existed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He collapsed, sat cross-legged, and cradled the device in his hands. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Joe, don’t you have any more electronic devices to fool them with?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She noted the device of the purse’s catch—the sound of its click. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a security risk, but I wanted to attend MK’s first test of an explosive device. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought: I was so distracted by my phone device that I wasn't aware what was happening in the car, and had no memory of it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There’s not enough time left in the year to get anything in the kiln, so those of us who bothered to show up to ceramics at all have been left to our own devices. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Before his captors could stop him, he bit down on the tip of the CIA-designed device, breaking a vial of cyanide poison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And I want to know about his talking devices, the supercool computers that help him talk and do really hard math problems, like finding black holes in space. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Mr. Flux examined the device, which looked tiny and toylike in his ghoulishly stretched hands. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Realizing the danger of this new device, Constance ordered all but a chosen few to leave the wall for the safety of the Abbey grounds. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z As the Owner reached for the lid to the jar, the Talent began to dissipate, just as the Talents always did if you left them to their own devices. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z But she had enough to build a rescuing device. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z But now the devices were becoming part of everyday life. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Most important, in a day of improbable miracles, Ralph was able to connect the suctioning device to the ambulance’s cigarette lighter and make John comfortable. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z One was an old bronze navigation device, like an astrolabe from a ship. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Is your map glowing brighter? Maybe it works like a homing device...” said Mini, poking at the “sprig of youth” design on her wrist. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They told him they needed at least six or seven years for a cleaner bomb; he quoted them as offering an “absolutely clean” device in four or five. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I wished I had a cloaking device so no one would ever find me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z If left to its own devices, a sufficiently large ball of gas would collapse under the weight of its own gravity; it would crush itself into a tiny lump. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “An atomic bomb was an intricate device, still in the developmental stage,” Compton recounted the conversation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To do this, they used an abacus or a counting board, a device similar to an abacus, where stones or other counters get moved around on a table. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I told her about the silver charm Kronos had shown me, the communication device. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “If Elodin had been here, matters would have been much simpler. But as the name of fire is unknown to me, I was left to my own devices.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When the Science Patrol encountered a threat they couldn’t handle on their own, Hayata would use an alien device called a Beta Capsule to transform into an alien superbeing known as Ultraman. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Our radio communicators went dead almost immediately. Probably an electromagnetic pulse device. But I’ll get us back to camp. Give me the Holo.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It is unlikely that his device to harness the zero-point energy will be any different. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Tally doubted a little water would have ruined the device, but she wouldn’t know until she reached the Smoke and activated it She hoped for a moment that the pendant wouldn’t work. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Of all the hideous devices owned and used by the Witch, the most terrible of all are her Seven League Boots. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z They stood back a bit, one boy holding a device in the air. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z From the 1890s onwards, Edison’s wax- cylinder recording devices were being used all over the world, capturing for ever the oral and musical culture of communities now long disappeared. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Mind’s Eye devices allow them to visit their friends, work, and relax from the comfort of their couches. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Left to our own devices we would kill each other? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z At the University of Kansas, the journalism school does a periodic “media fast,” in which students aren’t allowed to use their devices for twenty-four hours. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z From now on, wherever he went, he’d be closely trailed by a military aide carrying a forty-five-pound briefcase containing launch authentication codes and sophisticated communications devices, often referred to as the nuclear football. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The demoness went to her icebox—a strange device—and took out a pitcher and poured a large glass of some white liquid for me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She attaches it to some readout device and pumps me up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The first friction point was the “Mike” test at Eniwetok in November 1952, involving a large thermonuclear device. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The document set forth as the lab’s objective the “development and experimentation of methods and equipment for securing diagnostic information on behavior of thermonuclear devices. . . in close collaboration with the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Part of our job was to memorize the different types of “delivery devices.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By moving a sliding bridge up and down the monochord, Pythagoras changed the notes that the device played. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This is evidenced by the customs and devices that were long retained by the Creeks. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He stepped closer and swept the device up and down her body. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Otto kept a tight grip on his precious time travel device. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The equant was a device for speeding up and slowing down the movement of a body in the heavens by measuring its movement not from the centre of a circle but from another point. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That stage, however, belonged to the early days of the Shire, and hobbit-building had long since been altered, improved by devices, learned from Dwarves, or discovered by themselves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Merry bowed, and the lady showed him the shield, which was like the shield that had been given to Gimli, and it bore on it the device of the white horse. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z In practice, that meant developing powerful but compact thermonuclear devices, with a high proportion of yield to weight. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So if the call of junk food leads to overeating and too much obesity, what does too much interaction with our device lead to? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Its designers had miscalculated the physics of the fusion reaction and drastically underestimated its yield, with the result that an expected five-megaton device exploded with triple that energy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Ironically, Nicholas, by not paying attention, you have stumbled upon another literary device called a malapropism.* Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Once a device had been invented, the inventor then had to find an application for it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Are these devices so attractive that, despite our best intentions, we cannot help ourselves?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It now appeared plain and smooth, without mark or device that he could see. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In addition, there was a training device in Houston built especially for the gun. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I went in and found Rufus in bed with his leg sandwiched between the two boards of a wooden splint and held straight by a device of rope and cast iron. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z "It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft," Vogel pointed out. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the corner is a device whose hum is supposed to keep the bats away. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Just a few external monitors, and a self-destruct device should the bay be discovered. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z After the anklet was on, another machine clamped a small electronic device onto my left ear, piercing it in two locations. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As a young man Norwood had traveled to Bermuda with a diving bell modeled on Halley’s device, intending to make a fortune scooping pearls from the seabed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Why are we so drawn to our devices? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At first Arya took him for a Lannister, but when he passed near a torch die saw his device was a silver fist, not a lion. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was at a banquet held in honour of Galileo by the ‘lynxes’ that the name ‘telescope’ was first suggested for his magnifying device. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He now was fashioning a device by himself, without an army of technicians and engineers, working on a laboratory bench at home. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As their eyes changed, the travellers perceived that the floor was paved with stones of many hues; branching runes and strange devices intertwined beneath their feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z You can’t have a perpetual motion device because no matter how efficient, it will always lose energy and eventually run down. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Otto chewed the end of his pencil, flipped to a previous page in his pad, to the notes where TimeStar claimed his time travel device was likely thrown off because of Logan County weirdness. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z But it didn’t matter, because the device obviously didn’t work. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z What about a device that knew everyone you knew? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At that, a few other students rustled in their bags and took out their books or reading devices, too, and a roll of laughter rumbled through the room. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He could jury-rig the Archimedes sphere into some sort of flying device, maybe, but only if he had his tool belt—which he didn’t. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The Friedmans also housed some of their own papers in the library, as well as various cipher machines and coding devices. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Swords, axes, machetes, spears, and crude instruments that resembled primitive torture devices. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z As newer assistive listening devices develop, be sure to receive training on them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Mark was almost ready to give up, thinking the guy had merely used the device as a toy, when he finally discovered some hidden work files. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He was huge, like a big, black, squawking, enraged and murderous turkey, and if he’d had a gun, or a knife, or access to a nuclear device, I would have been gone instantly. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As the need for precision grew, they scratched marks on the tokens as mnemonic devices. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He had no resistance against sorrow and no device to protect himself against shame. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She paused a moment to consult her scrying device. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Ma’s eyes wandered between the bare knees poking beneath the dress and the device attached to Caroline’s forearm. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z And it can almost be assumed that much of the stuff that comes into our devices is not particularly useful. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The scrying device hadn’t failed at all, Luna realized with a start. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Girls moved around in football huddles, the way they always do, wearing lots of makeup and spaghetti-strap tops and brightly colored pants and shoes that looked like torture devices. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Though in truth, he’d have given anything for five more minutes of the device’s glow right then. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The other is a device, timed and set inside the front reception room of the office. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She has been left to her own devices, and those devices are broken. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The New York Times found it necessary to issue a warning on its garden page to the effect that unless special protective devices were installed poisons might get into the water supply by back siphonage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Perhaps following the lead of the state’s chief executive, Durham first used the bureaucratic device that could be called “Death by Committee.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “All right. Any plans for your interview? I know Haymitch left you two to your own devices,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z As Enigma became more complex, the Poles created a decoding device that helped decrypt the messages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In the script, the spa was the front for a sinister criminal mastermind who was spying on very important people by planting listening devices on their pets. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Cordelia turns to the back pages of the catalogue, where the pictures are in gray and black and there are crutches and trusses and prosthetic devices. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t get why she doesn’t have to wear these spiked torture devices.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z There is another insidious way in which the power of our devices to capture attention could be impacting daily life. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z According to the training film, this device monitored my physical location and also granted or denied me access to different areas of the IOI office complex. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They could grow floating in a culture medium that was constantly stirred by a magnetic device, an important technique Gey developed, now called growing in suspension. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z My fingers obsessively trace the hard little lump on my forearm where the woman injected the tracking device. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “You spend a lot of time handling man-made devices that won’t help you in a true emergency. I think it’s high time you learn some survival skills.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z He opened a pungent bag and put a chunk of the contents of the bag in a very fascinating little device that looked like a cigarette but was made of metal. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z In an ecological version of therapeutic nihilism, they want to leave the river basin to its own devices. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A prying charm will be met with a stronger charm, subtle devices will fail, devious inquiries will be deviously thwarted, and force will be turned ruinously back upon itself. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z They did have an electric suctioning device, but where and how would they charge it? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A small bellows was built into the side of the machine, and it began to rise and fall, giving the impression that the device was breathing. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z No obstetricians, no anesthesiologists, no fancy monitoring devices. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The guards thought they were looking for someone who’d set out an electronic device; they thought Finn’s voice had only been a recording. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The program for Redwing included the first airborne drop of a thermonuclear device, which created an enormous fireball four miles in diameter when it detonated fifteen thousand feet over Bikini. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even if you had a device that could travel backward in time, they say, you would be unable to do anything that would make any difference. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He reached into his bag and pulled out the device, its screen still cracked, unable to turn on. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The whale’s teeth pressed down on the sphere, causing faint lines to spider across it, but the protective device held, and finally the jaws relaxed. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But he remembered from his science and technology studies at school that the search planes used heat-seeking devices which could identify body warmth and would home in on two humans huddled in shrubbery. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Following the collapse of Jim Crow, all of the race-neutral devices for excluding blacks from the electorate were eliminated through litigation or legislation, except felon disenfranchisement laws. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “It might work like it’s supposed to and take you where you want to go. But we can’t be sure. The island’s magic is obviously unstable. You must rig up your guidance device to navigate.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z However, Puthoff’s device is one in a long line of “free energy” machines—none of which, in the past, have withstood scientific scrutiny. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Holding the actual devices in my hands was a little strange. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z But he could see from my face that I was not too sure about the devices in the room. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z As Lawrence expected, the skills of the mass spectrograph operators improved dramatically with experience, expanding the device’s capabilities; by mid-January, a nine-hour run yielded 18 micrograms of uranium enriched to 25 percent U-235. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Our ancestors built devices to measure the passing of the seasons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Clearly, Revere is a thinker possessing an active intelligence, and we will recognize the pose of hand on chin as an old device used since antiquity to represent philosophers. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Atchley used a basic premise: He theorized that if technology was like an addictive substance, say, alcohol, then users would find the information delivered on a device as irresistible as alcoholics do booze. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Then Father showed me a device which he called an electric light. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Catherine and I research all kinds of electronic talking and communication devices that have been designed for people like me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z After a while, he says, the mere presence of the device begins to offer the promise of tiny hits, and bigger ones. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Left to their own devices, the doctors guessed right on the most serious patients somewhere between 75 and 89 percent of the time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Total diffusion of rapid communication devices, which is supposed to bring about nationalism almost inevitably, had not done so. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The interweaving of the personal and the philosophical in this excerpt is being used as an expository device, to help us understand the issues that Spinoza wrote about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It’s a great device, because it can also be used for a pillow or a hat— all of which means she will not be back soon. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come on,” said the one who was operating the scanning device. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In any case, the sheriff ordered my father hauled in again, for “tampering with a court-ordered monitoring device.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Theoretically, only you can see me. But when an imaginary friend is left to his own devices, alone and forgotten...who knows?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Wouldn’t it be great if we had a magical device that allowed two people to talk over long distances any time they wanted? They could call it a talky-box.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z And 2006 was an important year for the mobile phone because of the growth of smartphone devices. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The poem serves then as a memory device. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And by 2009, roughly an hour of video consumption was done on a device other than the TV. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Jimmy L’s voice came through the device, loud enough to make the squirrel that was attempting a granola bar theft scurry away. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z And the device focused clearly on the face of the bird. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “What a miraculous device. Could we go see it close up?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Jamming devices located throughout the offices made constant buzzing noises. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At night, Bourke would sneak close to the walls to communicate with Blake, who could only whisper into the device. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Alec powered on the device and pulled up the maps feature, finding the one that had the Berg’s voyages documented, all the fines converging in one spot. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The silver Calm Control device, the only thing keeping me out of her head, was still warm when she pressed it into my palm. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z They liked Copernicanism as a mathematical device; they had no time for it as scientific truth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Not now, silly,” the man in the device said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Dorothy’s hunch that those who knew how to program the devices wouldn’t want for work was a correct one. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She had simply turned the royal regalia into a device for her memory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Back in the Cavendish Lab in Cambridge he built an artificial cloud chamber–a simple device in which he could cool and moisten the air, creating a reasonable model of a cloud in laboratory conditions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was not the mnemonic devices, as hard to recall as the facts. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It governs the behavior of transistors and integrated circuits, which are the essential components of electronic devices such as televisions and computers, and is also the basis of modern chemistry and biology. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The man stood up again and put both his hooks in front of Klaus’s face, letting the light from the reading lamps reflect off the wicked-looking devices. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He’s as well groomed and finely dressed as ever, but weighted down with manacles, ankle shackles, tracking devices. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z So they both lived, delighting in their own devices, and feared no assault, nor wrath, nor any end of their wickedness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z "Oh, no," I whisper, taking in the metal-and-plastic device that has replaced his flesh. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z TimeStar held his time travel device in his palm, triggered it with his thumb. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The light from the device cast a spooky blue glow across the large room—bigger than Mark would’ve guessed—revealing two long rows of bunks fining both walls, probably ten on each side. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It was around the same time that the piano’s close relative the organ also mastered the art of volume control, thanks to a device called a ‘ratchet swell pedal’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The first trial, of a Los Alamos device code-named Bravo, was a fiasco, though one that brought a sort of perverse credit to the Los Alamos lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Each device had a small control panel set into one of its eight sides, along with a serial number. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z On a bombing run with the Norden sight, Louie would visually locate the target, make calculations, and feed information on air speed, altitude, wind, and other factors into the device. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1956, “clean” devices were placed on the program for Operation Redwing, a series of tests in the South Seas. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The stove was one of those excellent and economical devices perfected by the Gethenians in their millennial effort to outwit cold. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The detonating device was publication of a letter Jefferson had written in 1801 to Joseph Priestley, the English scientist and renowned critic of Christianity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Yet the principles behind all these devices, like Aristarchus’s heliocentrism, died on the vine. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The ten-year-old niece was drawn to the odd bag with a clock on it and picked up the device. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The council had agreed that both he and Methuselah, plus any creature they chose to help them, were to be left to their own devices. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z An additional factor that can dictate how compulsively we use our devices has to do with individual personality and predilection. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There was a white man in a business suit and tie playing with some little device in his hands, one of those PalmPilot things, tapping the screen with a skinny pen. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z It had no visible propeller, though blue light similar to TimeStar’s device gleamed beneath it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z But Robert’s continuing ill health and his father’s own growing infirmity meant that little progress was made and Robert continued to be left largely to his own devices. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Newton’s modern biographer, Richard Westfall, concludes that we should regard Newton’s claim to have been surprised by the oblong image cast by the prism ‘as a rhetorical device which is not to be understood literally’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z During competitions our personal coaches gave us lessons to keep us in the best shape while competing, so with no Akhi, I was left to my own devices. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The device worked very well, but had an additional, unexpected benefit. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Farther to the side, he saw televisions, computers, and other electronic devices. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Thus, tiny devices that can travel along capillaries to enter and repair living tissue; the ability to heal disease, reverse the ravages of age, or make human bodies speedier and stronger than before. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While the device slightly lowered the room temperature, the machine was too noisy and the air too humid. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In the latter half of the century, as technology moved from the military and corporate settings into our businesses and homes, the devices grew masterful at capturing our attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Kaisha smiled briefly at Moss, flashing a mouth full of braces, before tucking the device away. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Even allowing for the fact that we can know these devices challenge our limitations, sometimes they are so compelling we can’t stop using them. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The thing is, the information that comes in may not be crucial at all; it may actually be irrelevant, spam, but, weirdly, that seems to reinforce the compulsion to answer the device. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z On a ledge behind that pillow was a small device. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The new tank changed the cyclotron’s reputation from a device whose efficient management was something of a black art, toward one that could be operated predictably under almost any condition. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mark wedged his flashlight in the crook of his elbow and tried one of the devices. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They dealt only with experimental data and were filled with graphs, charts, tables, photographs of devices for the measuring of auditory, visual, and tactile responses, and with mathematical translations of laboratory findings. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z It was supposed to remind cubicle workers to stand and stretch every hour, but it sounded like an ergonomic torture device. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I instructed it to activate its cloaking device as soon as it dropped out of hyperspace, then locate me on the planet’s surface and land somewhere nearby. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We find adapted computers, talking boards that speak the words, push-button systems, and even devices that work with blinks or head nods. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z In Nahuad rhetoric, things were frequently represented by the unusual device of naming two of their elements—a kind of doubled Homeric epithet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My ship’s cloaking device was already engaged, and I left it activated when I set the Vonnegut down on one of the Tyrell Building’s landing pads. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I am happy to be left to my own devices, my own messes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “The Lord of Destruction is surrounded by a celestial sphere that can only be shattered by an immortal device like those weapons.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Consequently, three thousand devices were collecting dust in army warehouses. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After maybe thirty seconds, I know I can’t stand being confined in the subterranean cell, and leave Buttercup to his own devices. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But it remains for another device, the human brain, to figure it out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From the microbes’ point of view, however, they’re just a useful device to enlist a host’s help in inoculating microbes into a body cavity of a new host. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What kind of world would make such a device? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A thin robotic arm extended a circular device that looked like a retinal scanner, which locked into place directly level with the pupil of my right eye. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A man who may not have even known what he was doing when he kicked a little electronic device toward the guards? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “There are no theories how to engineer the device,” he says sadly. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And after an awkward amount of time where I just stare at her, she hands me her mobile device. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I sweep my eyes across the room, searching for the device that will release the memory serum virus. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I swear the guy’s installed a tracking device on me—it’s the only explanation. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Such a device is not only a hazard to the person using the hose; it is also a public menace. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Perhaps if he had time the principles of this device could be unraveled, but for now he would have to improvise. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Here, it is possible to see the way in which our devices play so beautifully to our two basic attention systems: top- down and bottom-up. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “They talk about love and respect and family, but I don’t know any family that puts a tracking device on someone and then sends them out to be shot up and blown away.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He built ingenious training devices out of whatever was lying around, brewed up homemade liniments, prepared his horses in exactly the way they said he shouldn’t. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A new subspecialty was emerging as scientists grappled with the onslaught of new devices. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Left to his own devices, he did what any high school senior in America would do: he took advantage of it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then came Livermore’s turn, with a device code-named Morgen- stern that was expected to yield one megaton. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Our method will be as our mood suits us. Sans incendiary devices, of course. Now please start choosing people so we may begin.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Galton knew that no ordinary measuring devices existed for any of these characteristics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A computer memory is basically a device containing elements that can exist in either of two states. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to use of the device in 1890, the calculation of census data at the time fell to three years, down from seven, according to the Computer History Museum. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Most notable is the black tracking device strapped to his ankle—so this is why dude couldn’t meet Jus at a coffee shop. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “This is like the king of them all. It’s a device that makes you feel like you’re on fire.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z While Moss watched this process unfold a couple of times, he became aware of a distinct hum from the devices, low and subtle. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Then he put the soiled dishes into a square metal machine and pulled a lever, which brought hot water and hot air through the device. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Now that I’d removed the device, there would be no digital record of what happened to me from this moment forward. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Well. Not a long-winded boy, are you? There’s the offending device.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Jory's armor was blue-grey plate without device or ornament, and a thin grey cloak hung from his shoulders like a soiled rag. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her children had scattered to their own devices. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I should have known it the moment I saw these fins. They’re spring-loaded because they have to snap out when this device leaves its storage tube.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In a world without peer review, texts, in order to convey trustworthiness, reliability and accuracy, had to employ literary devices. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I am aware of prosthetic devices, but I think this is the first time I have seen them so close. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z ‘I am proud, Lord of the Mark, to bear your device,’ he said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But there are alternatives: One could peer inside using some sort of periscopelike magnifying device, for example. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Engineers have co-opted these devices to have those very signals we can’t ignore.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Even if they boarded the plane, Carole would have to take a suction device for John’s neck—would using it disturb other passengers? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Oliver heard static; then Jimmy L’s voice came through the device. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The paddle seemed more and more useless as a steering device. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The official name for the tricks is a “mnemonic device.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Left to its own devices, it had grown knotted and wild, like a circus whose animals had forgotten their tricks. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A Republican senator from Pennsylvania called the Mercury capsule-Atlas rocket pairing “a Rube Goldberg device on top of a plumber’s nightmare.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Facts are a linguistic device which ensures that experience always trumps authority and reason. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I want to tell you about my favorite new appliance, the ultimate time- saving device, My Virginia! The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He swept his device across it, nodded, and pulled one of the stabilizer fins off. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z "I told you," she said, "that I would do everything in my power to frustrate your plans and devices." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The device is so important for social uses; she’s heavily involved in her sorority, Alpha Delta Pi, where, for instance, she recently helped write a musical. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She herself invented a wonderful door-opening device made out of wires and springs and pulleys, with heavy weights dangling on cords, and soon every door in the house had a door-opener on it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Her first master got swindled by a man who sold a device that cleaned cotton twice as fast as Whitney’s gin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The man had barely taken it when Mark heard a click and Alec was shooting into the sky, his device pulling him up the rope, toward the hovering Berg. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They were led into another room to have the devices removed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But as we shall see, coherent discourse also uses devices that differ from the branching of a tree, and our metaphors must expand accordingly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The well had a little wooden roof over it and a simple winding device and there was the rope dangling down into a dark bottomless hole. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z From that material, the Los Alamos bomb makers would create the device known as Fat Man, the plutonium bomb dropped over Nagasaki three days after the Hiroshima bombing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His hands were chained behind his back, and around his neck was a wet leathern cord attached to a device the king had brought from Tyrosh. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z So while cartography and navigational instruments taken in isolation are neutral devices, in practice they are part of a package of technologies that ensured Western global dominance for five hundred years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They weren’t visible, because the clouds were low and by statute airships had to keep a certain height above fen country, but who knew what cunning spy devices they might carry? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Mark stared at the charging device until Alec dragged him to his feet to help prepare for their journey. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Two Roman soldiers came into the shop with a mechanical drawing on papyrus of a device they wanted built by sunrise the next morning. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As the Lord High Chancellor may have told you, my Order has a wizardy sort of device to get messages from our people out in the field. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z But there’s another way in which our devices, perhaps less expectedly, cater to our deepest neurological wiring. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The gods had died and left them to their own devices. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My simple device to deceive Polonius and the king grew, under Hamlet’s hand, into a plot with ever more complex motives and uncertain ends. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They’d climb the stairs to the sixth floor and break into the offices of the Democratic National Committee—the objective was to place listening devices and photograph key documents. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I murmured an excuse and slipped away, leaving them to their own formidable devices. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “How do we know that tray in your head isn’t a recording device?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Leo spotted Piper’s knife, an old leather-bound book, a few interesting-looking mechanical devices, and enough gold to give Hazel’s horse a stomachache. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “America ... shall respond finally ... to the self-interest instilled in all men by our God . .. now untrammeled by the unnatural devices of princes and . . . tyrants. .. .” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “In Bono’s catalogue, I saw devices ... the ones which hobble the legs ... so flight is impossible ” “I wish you had not seen that.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The British believed the device was unbreakable, and they wanted to use it on the front lines. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They had a device that made a loud clicking sound up there in the balcony, and when that noisy dicker sounded, the contestant was supposed to stop singing in midpassage and walk off the stage. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The man raised the device and pointed it directly at Moss, and despite wanting to appear fearless, Moss still flinched. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In the rearview mirror I noticed with gratification that he was remonstrating quietly but firmly with Luther—threatening, I very much hoped, to take away his communication device. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Savery thus proposed mounting his device near the bottom of a mine and using it to pump water to the surface. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Her best friend, Janie, used to even make fun of her for all of her mnemonic devices. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z MMO players could only see these online environments through a small two-dimensional window—their desktop computer monitor—and they could only interact with it by using keyboards, mice, and other crude input devices. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Over the heads of the three philosophers hangs the curtain which rises at the beginning of a theatrical performance—a device that was used by Galileo’s engraver, Stefano della Bella, for the frontispieces of plays. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I saw a device with a button for each apartment, so I pressed the button for A. Black’s apartment, which was 9E. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “These are the illustrations you sent back to our device. Look at them.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Second, they also contained a concealed device that set a hair-trigger. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His evidence was mounting and profound; this was something different, this device that captivated the human senses, and, in a way, recognition of the risks required neither science nor proverbial rocket science. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “So we surrender to Lucifer’s device to ruin our signs ministry? We hand him victory without argument?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He was an inveterate tinkerer and inventor, a lover of gadgetry and mechanical devices, a designer of machines and contraptions of all sorts, a dreamer of big dreams. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They were quaint devices that belonged to the nineteenth century. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Even when cited merely as a rhetorical device, the armed struggle was a sign that we were actively fighting the enemy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some messages included an elaborate diagram of a cooling device and the offer to set it up in the president's room. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Harris’s shoulders sagged like a flotation device losing air. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Suppose we had a magic gravity machine—a device with which we could control the Earth’s gravity, perhaps by turning a dial. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed on from there to a Travel Hall, where they saw the car covered with tiles, and the functioning Rube Goldberg chicken device and the rusting Burma Shave ads on the wall. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z In one movement he hoisted her into the tower room and, with a flick of his hook, sent her rescue device clanging to the ground. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z In fact, replicants look and act so much like real humans that the only way a blade runner can spot one is by using a polygraph-like device called a Voight-Kampff machine to test them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was an early device used to detect and measure the magnitude of an electric current. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But that is mere child’s play compared to the way personal communications devices can commandeer those systems. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The devices took various forms, but basically they used twisted metal coils to detect an electrical signal. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There was a whirring sound as the rope retracted into the device, yanking him to Alec, who had a hand outstretched. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Every one of us should have the freedom to use flamethrowers, explosives, and any other incendiary device!” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Elihue, not knowing where to look, was thrown back on his own devices, and “found” himself quite unable to earn money. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z These devices have been imported from foreign countries and thus are contaminated. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His spirits rose a bit at the hope that maybe something within those devices would shed some light on what they should do. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Frank Haven Hall, superintendent of the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind, unveiled a new device that made plates for printing books in Braille. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “And the orange device they were using—I saw one at Thurmond, once.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z As a substitute demonstration, Ernest ordered the device to be dismantled so he could explain the function of each part to the wealthy donor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He never understood the legal device that was used against him but what remained of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z They were like the devices that held our tartans together, unremarkable, dull, but necessary in their way. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The demon girl held the device up to her face so the lenses were against her eyes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z One priority was installing listening devices in the campaign office of Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He also gave Liddy something he called a “gait-altering device,” a lead insert placed in the shoe that caused the wearer to limp. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, as an emergency device, it was never intended to be reusable. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z His previous experiences with the odd device that stored and revealed thoughts and memories, though highly instructive, had also been uncomfortable. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z A weird funnel device was attached to the forges chimney, trapping the smoke and heat and channeling it through a pipe into the floor, next to a big bronze manhole cover. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Later, as Clinton’s troops were heading up the Hudson Valley, Clinton used another device to pass the news of his whereabouts to Burgoyne. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Confident in the devices, the British army had already distributed eleven thousand of them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z David pulled his device out again, pointing it back toward the path. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The mirror works as a scaling device; it is able to do this because it reflects the cone of rays coming from an object as they pass through a plane. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Over the last few decades, we have invented countless time-saving devices that are supposed to make life more relaxed—washing machines, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, telephones, mobile phones, computers, email. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Still other devices, invented to serve one purpose, eventually found most of their use for other, unanticipated purposes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While Ames sat in the meeting, a team of FBI technical experts placed a homing device inside his Jaguar. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The device began to click like a Geiger counter as the man reached them, and he stopped, his quarry found. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z When the play was being performed, Violet had watched the light controls carefully, taking mental notes in case these devices came in handy for an invention. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Another study suggesting falling attention spans found that we are even spending less time with the apps on our mobile devices. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But the reasons we’re so swept up, researchers began to understand, is because personal communications devices are unprecedented at capturing both our top-down and bottom- up attention systems, even without our awareness. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Unlike our playful plot to deceive the king and my father, this device that Hamlet rehearsed had a dark and serious purpose I could not fathom. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z This morning she was thinking about how to construct a device that could retrieve a rock after you had skipped it into the ocean. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z A pair of blue lasers shot from the device, tracing a tall, wide rectangle—a door—in thin air. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z A lover of men, not women, and an atheist, he used the device of space travel to criticize everything he disliked about the real world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I had built the machine but had not included any devices for studying disintegrations.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oh, the delight of the manufactured good, the man-made device, the created thing! Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Then the scientist went a step further and installed a device in the cloth mother that would make it kick out and hurt the baby monkey. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He pointed, clicked a button, and several laser beams shot from the device, tracing over the camera. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Instead, they scurried around like little sugar ants, busy hormiguitas, gathering the materials to create a sturdy device in which to carry our wounded sister, because her leg hurt so much that she couldn’t walk. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z But, being as mischievous as I am, I built a safeguard into the device so its initial use had to be triggered by a Clock Watcher or human. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Then, following a set of instructions I’d programmed into it, the little droid used its clawlike index finger to enter a series of commands on the device’s control panel. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Park’s body, lying on damp ground atop the bottom strand of wire, became that device. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Now we are left to our own devices, our own speculations. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The Head Sister held her scrying device up to her right eye and scanned the rest of the forest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z "You say they flew no banners. What of the armor they wore? Did any of you note orna-ments or decorations, devices on shield or helm?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Under the left couch bunk he found a deflated rubber dinghy and a plastic paddle, but there was no other survival gear, no flares or signaling devices, on the boat. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Two devices were used to lift the stones and concrete to the roof for the construction of the vaults. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Moreover, a drunk driver remains impaired for the whole ride, whereas the impairment of a cell phone user is intermittent, and impacts the brain only in the period surrounding their interaction with the device. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The rack in front of it held five large octahedron-shaped devices, each roughly the size of a soccer ball. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The device was not a hydrogen bomb, exactly, but it was “the first thermonuclear test explosion on earth,” in the words of one witness, the young Berkeley physicist Herbert York. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even the vast sextants and quadrants built by Tycho Brahe were simply enlarged sighting devices. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He had some kind of handheld electronic device with which he was taking mysterious readings of the sky or landscape. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She hailed from a small farm where she was often left to her own devices, save on those nights when the master needed company and she was forced to drink the cup of vice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z DON’T WORRY! if the sick person’s device didn’t detect the device of someone he knew nearby. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “A device for telling the ship in space where I am on the planet,” she says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It was a device for handling the slices. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is an incendiary device: who knows what we’d make of it, if we ever got our hands on it? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Seppala says the research could be extended to help people become less responsive to their devices, to exhibit more top- down control of their environment, rather than have it drive them. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Somewhere in Limbo, all the old devices and appliances and costumes are lined up, waiting their turn for reentry. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The workpad’s screen had been destroyed, the entire flat panel of the device bent at a weird angle. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z By the time I got to a description of the orange device, he had heard quite enough. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Of course, she hadn’t activated the pendant yet, so his device couldn’t detect it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The Mike device was based on the Teller-Ulam design and built by Los Alamos; Livermore, which at that time was fully engaged in “simply coming into being,” played no role whatsoever. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Federalism—the division of power between the states and the federal government—was the device employed to protect the institution of slavery and the political power of slaveholding states. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He deems young people who are raised on digital devices “Generation D.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Mark had to shut down the device for a minute. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He produced some new device from his pocket. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Bugs = little listening devices—Population Police hear everything. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z He was a lovely cook, and when he went home at four, he would leave me supper to heat up in the microwave oven, a device that was new to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The inconvenience of this system in record-keeping is palliated by various devices, for instance reference to well-known events, reigns of kings, dynasties, local lords, etc. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Jack Hodgson had brought along a paraffin tin filled with nitroglycerin; he had created a timing device that used the inside of a ball-point pen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, he said, the agents shoved him in a special chair, attached wires to his body, and put a black hood over his head and a device like a catcher’s mask over his face. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Here we are,” he said, closing the door after him; he seated himself, plugging the device into the electrical outlet. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Scythe Rand produced a device from her green robe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The Lord is our Shepherd and the very least we sheep can do is keep up with the flock, by our own devices, I should think. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He held on as he frantically searched the device for the button. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The man in front, his body hidden under layers of fabric and body armor, held a gloved hand against the device in his ear and said, in a monotone voice, “Building clear.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The device on his sun-yellow banner showed a red heart surrounded by a blaze of orange fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Formally race-neutral devices were adopted to achieve the goal of an all-white electorate without violating the terms of the Fifteenth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This time the device exploded as intended, severely wounding the senator’s maid when she unwrapped the package. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It was a time of shortages and limited labor-saving devices, and housework could take hours. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I understand that the factory is not working at capacity currently, and I did observe that only one of these devices was operating, burning coal and what looked like one of the cutting tables. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Another drawback was that the device took a lot of time to put on properly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally, I did something I’d been dying to do for the past week—I disabled the locking mechanisms on both devices. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But they are no longer priestesses; they are now ornamental devices doubling as supporting columns. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Lifting a picture from the wall of the living room, he attached a small electronic device to the nail, stepped back, viewed it, then replaced the picture. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The wound in my arm was sapping my ability to think, but I muttered, “Communication device ... spy at camp.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The orange device in the PSF’s free hand was no bigger than a cell phone, easy enough to maneuver in front of Liam’s face from where it was pressed against the minivan’s steering wheel. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z At first men laughed and did not greatly fear such devices. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z If there really was a Flat Trans device, it would be there. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He nodded his head at the devices on the table. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z At Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, he helped invent a new device for measuring the velocity of a cannon-fired shell, essential for accurate range finding, winning a patent for the work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then a different device against her stretched and shaking belly. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I scrabble for the device, then back out of the room and pull the door all the way shut behind me, panting. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z If the burglars take great pains to steal what turns out to contain a homing device that leads the police to them, that’s ironic. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But that doesn't prevent me from feeling the sharp stab of pain as the needle inserts the metal tracking device deep under the skin on the inside of my forearm. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z |
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