organs

noun

plural of organ
1
as in books
a publication that appears at regular intervals that newspaper is intended as an organ for the whole university community

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2
as in instruments
something used to achieve an end uses the business as an organ to fund a variety of political and social causes

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Recent Examples of organs This deep layer of abdominal muscle wraps around your spine, helping to hold in your internal organs and keep you upright. — Andee Tagle, NPR, 15 Aug. 2026 As one of the most important organs in the body, the heart needs to function properly under all circumstances, even during stressful situations such as imminent danger. — Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026 In one series of experiments, Cao and his team processed 21 million cells, sampled from 14 tissues or organs in about 50 male and female mice at five life stages, and built a data set of gene expression for each cell. — Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026 So, StemRad, working with Lockheed Martin, expanded this idea into a female vest that, aside from the hips, also covered the breasts, stomach, colon, and reproductive organs. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2026 Agent Mulder, hot on the trail of a group of murderers who are harvesting their victims' organs, breaks into a makeshift laboratory in an attempt to save an abducted woman. — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026 The emergency vet clinic that treated him said his temperature reached 107 degrees, causing his organs to shut down. — Kara Finnstrom, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 The liver just might be one of your hardest-working organs, producing proteins and filtering the blood, metabolizing nutrients and creating necessary bile for digestion. — Alexandra Frost, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026 In Chinese medicine, each of the five elements has an associated color, and yellow represents the Earth element, which governs the spleen and stomach — the digestive organs. — Karin Eldor, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for organs
  1. books
  2. instruments
  3. periodicals
  4. means
  5. newspapers
  6. vehicles
  7. journals
  8. agents
Noun
  • Season 1 of the HBO Max series gave its cast (and creator) a career skyrocket and readers new romance books to obsess over.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Another strategic way for experts to increase their credibility is to publish books, white papers and industry reports that showcase their unique knowledge and insights.
    — Behnam Shakibaie, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of books
Noun
  • Webb’s NIRCam and MIRI instruments produced dramatically different views of the object, showing how different infrared wavelengths can reveal different components of the same stellar death scene.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Scrub technologists and circulating nurses prepare and manage instruments, maintain sterility, position the patient with millimeter precision for complex spine or cranial approaches, and anticipate needs before they are spoken.
    — Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of instruments
Noun
  • People who might be lucky to have a roof over their heads gathered there to read American books and periodicals, watch American movies, listen to lectures about America, tap their toes to jazz from America.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • It is anticipated that all IEEE periodicals will be included in the Integrity Hub screening by the end of this year.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2026
Definition of periodicals
Noun
  • Because having a major LLM now adopt automatic watermarking of all its AI outputs has caused masses of people to rush to find a means to defeat the watermarking.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Defense attorney Steve Haney argued that there was no evidence Rinderknecht started the blaze, that the fire could have been started by a firework or other means and that the fire scene was not secured.
    — Sierra van der Brug, Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of means
Noun
  • Yet her 1893 trial, which was breathlessly covered by newspapers around the globe, found her innocent.
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Jones also appeared on cable television talk shows and wrote opinion pieces for newspapers.
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of newspapers
Noun
  • Foundations are required to distribute at least 5 percent of their assets annually, a rule created precisely to prevent charitable vehicles from becoming indefinite tax shelters.
    — Nick Allardice, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Some shops with specific scan tools that have special programming functions can permanently shut off the start/stop system on certain vehicles.
    — John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs And Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of vehicles
Noun
  • Werner also says that as students move into upper elementary and middle school, those journals can transition into paper planners and eventually digital tools like Google Calendar or MyStudyLife.
    — Adrienne Farr, Parents, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In a landmark study by Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough, participants who kept weekly gratitude journals reported more optimism, exercised more, and felt better about their lives overall.
    — Parul Somani, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of journals
Noun
  • Cheap inference also creates elasticity, since agents that can afford to run continuously consume far more.
    — Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Hennepin County’s top prosecutor calls the interstate clash over Castro’s transfer a needless test of states’ duty to honor extradition — and of whether federal agents can evade accountability.
    — Mark Vancleave, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of agents

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