1
as in newspaper
a publication that appears at regular intervals
that newspaper is intended as an organ for the whole university community
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2
as in instrument
something used to achieve an end
uses the business as an organ to fund a variety of political and social causes
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Recent Examples of organ
Makes sense then, that according to Chinese medicine, spring is also the best season to support the work of the liver and gallbladder, key organs for cleansing and detoxing.
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Marie Bladt, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2025
This is because men are typically larger than women and have more muscle mass, and bigger organs and beefier muscles require more calories to work.
—Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2025
Studies have suggested that the odorless gas can protect vital organs from altitude sickness, while boosting the body’s production of erythropoietin, or EPO, the hormone that stimulates the production of red blood cells.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 31 Mar. 2025
Man in limbo after brother from Venezuela is detained while trying to donate kidney
After a long and complicated process to get approved for the transplant under public insurance, the brothers had an appointment in a Chicago hospital in April to go forward with more tests for the organ exchange.
—Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
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Marie Bladt, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2025
This is because men are typically larger than women and have more muscle mass, and bigger organs and beefier muscles require more calories to work.
—Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2025
Studies have suggested that the odorless gas can protect vital organs from altitude sickness, while boosting the body’s production of erythropoietin, or EPO, the hormone that stimulates the production of red blood cells.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 31 Mar. 2025
Man in limbo after brother from Venezuela is detained while trying to donate kidney
After a long and complicated process to get approved for the transplant under public insurance, the brothers had an appointment in a Chicago hospital in April to go forward with more tests for the organ exchange.
—Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for organ
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From traditional newspapers to blogs, the rule is the same: If there is a qualified expert who can deliver a newsworthy opinion, it will be given strong consideration.—
Nancy Marshall,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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There were more than 100 magazines and newspapers devoted to the sport.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
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Webb’s powerful instruments calculated the asteroid at about 200 feet, or roughly the height of a 15-story building.—
Amanda Kooser,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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The instrument, now in its fourth year of surveying the sky, can observe light from 5,000 galaxies at the same time.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
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Similarly, Amos Kendall, the nation’s postmaster general, adopted an extreme states’ rights position and suppressed the periodicals in the interest of buttressing local mores.—
Sarah Prager,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Mar. 2025
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The Democrat and the Gazette even blamed the Black residents of Elaine for the violence and the Black periodicals the Chicago Defender and The Crisis (the NAACP’s magazine) for inciting racial hatred.—
Christmaelle Vernet & Kathy Roberts Forde / Made by History,
TIME,
28 Feb. 2025
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Amtrak is also not considered a department, agency or instrumentality of the United States Government and its overseeing regulatory body, the OIG, remains open during shutdowns as well.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
20 Dec. 2024
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But the instrumentality of so many of his characters seems to have reached a nadir in The City and Its Uncertain Walls.—
Bailey Trela,
Vulture,
19 Nov. 2024
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The 2008 study, published in the journal Evolutionary Biology, was led by Corry Gellatly.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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In Roman religion, she was symbolically connected to the moon, as its phases were thought to correspond with harvests, which could explain the female statue’s lunula pendant, per the journal.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
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Contributors such as Italian fashion’s favorite philosopher Emanuele Coccia and international collaborators like Luke Abrahams also curated features for the magazine’s first issue.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
4 Apr. 2025
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An eclectic bounty of soda cans, margarine tubs, shampoo bottles, pizza boxes and magazines tumbles down a ramp onto a massive table that comfortably fits four people on each of its three unblocked sides.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
4 Apr. 2025
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Despite still not having an agent, Marshall had her managers secure her a script and even cut the reel for her self-tape herself.—
Ronda Racha Penrice,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Apr. 2025
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The defense pointed to several potential suspects at the home at the time, including Albert, his nephew and their friend, an agent for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives who had been exchanging flirty text messages with Read.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2025
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From her searching emerges a book that might be called biography, historiography, cultural criticism, manifesto, or all of the above—a memoir, in a sense, of the internet.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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The show even started a lending library next to craft services, to which, Briones adds, Wyle donated a bunch of books.—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Organ.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/organ. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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