How to Use nondestructive in a Sentence
nondestructive
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About 93% of racial justice protests in the US since Floyd's death have been peaceful and nondestructive, according to a new report.
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Alisha Ebrahimji,
CNN,
18 Sep. 2020
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Flown over a landscape, the instrument sends nondestructive laser pulses to the ground and measures the reflected beams.
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Bridget Alex,
Discover Magazine,
28 Jan. 2020
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First, the researchers used nondestructive (like noninvasive testing for a human) surface tests at the Stonehenge site.
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Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
31 July 2020
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There were no precise rules guiding how the United States or any military should respond in a case like this—no code with which to say that the Russian satellites had come too close, none determining the nondestructive firing of a weapon as a breach.
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Rachel Riederer,
Harper's Magazine,
26 Oct. 2021
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Researchers say their model will serve as a useful, nondestructive way to study, in real-time, traumatic head injuries such as concussions.
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Carl Engelking,
Discover Magazine,
12 Aug. 2014
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These particles have been in wide use for decades, but new imaging techniques are expanding the field to the study of rocks and sediments for geoscience, nondestructive analyses of art and antiquities, and even living plants.
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James Riordon,
Scientific American,
29 July 2022
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The microscopes are too rare, too fragile, and too historically important to just unfasten and remove the lenses, so Cocquyt and colleagues had to find a nondestructive way to get a closer look.
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Kiona N. Smith,
Forbes,
15 May 2021
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This tactile technology opens up a non-optical way for the nondestructive testing of the human body and flexible electronics.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
20 Feb. 2023
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But nondestructive techniques like geophysics and surface geology can only give you a broad picture.
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Howard Lee,
Ars Technica,
17 Aug. 2022
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This was confirmed in 2016, when the blade was subjected to X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (a nondestructive testing method) to analyze its composition.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
23 Feb. 2022
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This repurposing of corporate icons will offer future artists and activists a powerful means of expression which will be easily accessible to the masses and at the same time will be safe and nondestructive.
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Bruce Sterling,
WIRED,
30 June 2010
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The sponsors of the Shipyards Act should be certain to include funding for robust technical training for machinists, electricians, nondestructive testing personnel, and welders.
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Jim Talent,
National Review,
3 May 2021
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Del Mar College says that Clyde graduated in May with an associate degree of applied science in nondestructive testing technology.
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Washington Post,
17 June 2019
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So Collins's postdoctoral fellow in York, Sarah Fiddyment, developed a nondestructive method to extract ancient proteins from parchment.
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Ann Gibbons,
Science | AAAS,
25 July 2017
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In Arecibo’s case, Córdova says, some of the facility’s structural degradation was difficult, if not impossible, to see using nondestructive technology.
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Robin George Andrews,
Scientific American,
11 Dec. 2020
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After a proof-of-principle paper last year, Wiemann and Briggs are applying their nondestructive technique—shining a laser on specimens to reveal ancient chemical bonds—to help solve paleontological mysteries.
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Gretchen Vogel,
Science | AAAS,
8 Oct. 2019
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Media: Euronews The college offers certificates, associate degrees and incumbent worker training in the areas of process technology, instrumentation, nondestructive testing and electrical.
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Valerie Sweeten,
Houston Chronicle,
8 July 2018
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