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
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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
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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
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Kate, a proud royal outfit repeater, last wore this coat for a .
—Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Jan. 2020
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First on Paskievitch’s list was to fix a radio repeater.
—Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
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Patek in my view is the best minute repeater manufacturer in the world.
—Carol Besler, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2022
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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
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The complex caliber inside this watch is the world’s thinnest repeater movement.
—Roberta Naas, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
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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
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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
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So delaying the clock on the repeater tax also could be a strategy.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The first blueprints for a quantum repeater were developed 25 years ago.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 June 2023
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In short, the satellite is not an orbiting base-station, but a radio repeater.
—The Economist, 7 Mar. 2020
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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
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Minute repeaters often cost six figures due to the complexity of installing the many gears.
—Popular Mechanics, 19 Feb. 2015
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The acoustics will differ (but only slightly) from one repeater to the next, making each subtly unique.
—Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2023
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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
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To outfit a warehouse like this with signal repeaters or boosters could cost a fortune.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2020
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The repeater seems to be in an environment with strong magnetic fields.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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