How to Use repeater in a Sentence

repeater

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  • The other halves of each pair zip inward, toward the heart of the repeater.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 3 June 2021
  • The rodents at this week’s third repeater got on top of a counter, left a piece of poop there and on a board under the counter.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The robot can be radio-controlled from about half a mile away, or a mile with the aid of a repeater.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Kate, a proud royal outfit repeater, last wore this coat for a .
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Jan. 2020
  • First on Paskievitch’s list was to fix a radio repeater.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Patek in my view is the best minute repeater manufacturer in the world.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The repeater watch houses a mechanical movement that chimes the time on the hour, the quarter hours and the minutes past the quarter hours.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The complex caliber inside this watch is the world’s thinnest repeater movement.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The top pusher starts the minute repeater function, and the two lower ones correct the moon and day indications.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Park staff have cleaned up the site and repaired a radio repeater at the burned-out Mount Holmes Fire Lookout, but there are no plans to restore the building.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2019
  • So delaying the clock on the repeater tax also could be a strategy.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The pusher in the crown, meanwhile, can activate a minute repeater that strikes the hours, quarters and minutes on-demand.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Of the roughly 75 FRBs seen before this month’s discoveries, just 2 bursts were known to be repeaters.
    — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Breguet employs an in-house acoustician whose job is to ensure the perfect pitch on its minute repeaters.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Wi-Fi repeaters, Powerline adapters, and mesh routers can all help get your Wi-Fi network out to the furthest corners of your home.
    — David Nield, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2017
  • The first blueprints for a quantum repeater were developed 25 years ago.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 June 2023
  • In short, the satellite is not an orbiting base-station, but a radio repeater.
    — The Economist, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Now Metzger, Margalit and Sironi have released their full model, based mostly on explaining the ins and outs of the first repeater.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2019
  • Minute repeaters often cost six figures due to the complexity of installing the many gears.
    — Popular Mechanics, 19 Feb. 2015
  • The acoustics will differ (but only slightly) from one repeater to the next, making each subtly unique.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Englund's goal is to find materials with just the right atomic defects to form the heart of those quantum repeaters.
    — Neil Savage, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
  • To outfit a warehouse like this with signal repeaters or boosters could cost a fortune.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The repeater seems to be in an environment with strong magnetic fields.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2018
  • The center is a hub connected to a ham-radio network, a whole homemade chain of radio repeaters that don’t rely on the grid.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Even the Yankees are unwilling to trigger the maximum repeater penalty by going over the tax line three years in a row.
    — Steve Larkin, The Week, 7 Apr. 2022
  • In addition to the tourbillon and moon phase, the watch offers up a minute repeater and an eternal calendar.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The Blazers will save roughly $3 million in tax payments and -- more importantly -- avoid the repeater tax for at least one year.
    — Joe Freeman, OregonLive.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Of the eight players from the two programs named to First Team, five are repeaters as either two year or three-year all-district recipients.
    — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 11 June 2019
  • That’s in sharp contrast to the repeater’s home, which is not only a thousand times less massive, but also forming stars at a much higher rate.
    — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2019
  • Genta’s speciality was the minute repeater, the highest complication of all, and one made by few watch brands.
    — Carol Besler, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024

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