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How to use the word detect in a Sentence?

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We’re much better when we detect things before there’s an emergency, we can prevent major emergencies from happening.

Anne Schuchat

Found on CNN
12 months ago

We need to maintain these activities to be able to detect future outbreaks and to be even faster at detecting them and finding the source.

Maroya Walters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think you have a subset of patients who are being screened earlier with colonoscopies; you have advancing technology where we can potentially detect tumor cell DNA in the stool sample, which is leading to earlier diagnosis. And sometimes that effect will skew statistics and make it look like the incidence is really on the rise, but deeper analysis shows you that part of that is due to earlier detection and more screening, so that could be one facet of the equation.

Shane Dormady

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We did not detect a threshold of noise above which the risk started to increase. The risk increased with higher levels of noise, starting at the lowest category that was measured in the study.

Kazem Rahimi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fact that our traditional methodologies were developed for people with White skin meant that these nurse practitioners could not detect reported abuse accurately, there is a better methodology out there for women with dark skin pigmentation and we need to distribute it throughout the country so that there’s no excuse to not use the right equipment for the right women.

Nancy La Vigne

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a fantastic result which highlights the capabilities of MIRI to serendipitously detect a previously undetectable size of asteroid in the main belt, repeats of these observations are in the process of being scheduled, and we are fully expecting new asteroid interlopers in those images!

Bryan Holler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Radiation detectors on moving vehicles can be used to detect radiation above the natural levels, but the relatively low amount of radiation in the source means that they would have to ‘sweep’ the area relatively slowly.

Dale Bailey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you give Moderna or Pfizer information early enough, they can make a vaccine really quickly, which we couldn’t do at the beginning of the pandemic, the big lesson learned is that you can think about all of these variants of viruses circulating around the world, and it’s kind of like anything else we would have a radar system for, to detect what is out there so you can get an early warning.

Matt McKnight

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is an increasing number of academics concerned that they will not be able to detect AI-written answers, partly the concerns are driven by a lack of understanding from teachers of what sort of questions might be susceptible … so staff may push for return to exams until [these issues] can be addressed.

Alex Steel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When wildlife mortalities occur in such small numbers or individuals, and in species like skunks, foxes and bears that don’t spend a lot of time in situations where they are highly visible to the public, they can be hard to detect, when you get that first detection you tend to start looking harder, and you’re more likely to find new cases.

Jennifer Ramsey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This design of this study is not able to detect the severity of these symptoms, and there are potentially other missed patients due to using medical coding to detect persistent Long COVID symptoms.

Benjamin Abramoff

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The human sense of smell is extraordinary. Our eyes can distinguish several million colours, our ears can distinguish half a million tones, but our noses can distinguish well over a trillion different odours. Humans can detect virtually all volatile chemicals ever tested.

Merlin Sheldrake

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

The place we're at now where Iran could produce enough material for a bomb within days to weeks is a very dangerous place to be. And extending that timeline under revived deal is a much better place to be, a six month breakout timeline in my view is sufficient. That that will provide enough time for the international community to detect any attempts by Iran to break out and the time to try and resolve it diplomatically before having to look at the potential of a military option.

Eric Brewer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This ensemble of chemistry, environmental, and descent imaging data will paint a picture of the layered Venus atmosphere and how it interacts with the surface in the mountains of Alpha Regio, which is twice the size of Texas, these measurements will allow us to evaluate historical aspects of the atmosphere as well as detect special rock types at the surface such as granites while also looking for tell-tale landscape features that could tell us about erosion or other formational processes.

Jim Garvin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

HHS will lead a government-wide interagency coordinating council, which will involve experts from the Department of Defense, Veterans Administration, the Labor Department and many entities across government to coordinate both public and private sector work to advance our understanding of Long Covid, and to accelerate efforts to prevent, detect and treat it.

Xavier Becerra

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The take-home message is that people who are in their 30s and early 40s need to have their lipids and blood sugar measured. That's the only way you'll detect any issues, but many people that age feel they're healthy and say,' Why do I need to see a doctor all the time ?' So it's encouragement for people to start having regular checkups at that period of Lindsay Farrer life.

Lindsay Farrer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Everyone on the Kitty Hawk expected the sub to go deep and were hoping to detect it on the other side.

Carl Schuster

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Must have been scary as hell, everyone on the Kitty Hawk expected the sub to go deep and were hoping to detect it on the other side.

Carl Schuster

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If an adversary has a specialized plane aloft, it can detect [ a satellite ] signal and home in on it, it isn't necessarily easy, but the Russians have a lot of practice on tracking various signal emitters in Syria and responding. Starlink may work for the moment, but anyone setting a [ Starlink ] dish up in Ukraine needs to consider it as a potential giant target.

Nicholas Weaver

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Advanced Baseline Imager, or ABI, is ideal for detecting the thermal signature, or the hot spots, from the fires, sometimes, it's even able to detect the fires before they're reported from the public. This is really critical information to get to firefighters so that they can take care of the fires before they can become out of control.

Dan Lindsey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In this pandemic, unfortunately, we have been chasing the outbreak. And the way to control an outbreak is to get ahead of it. And one way to get ahead of it is to detect these early signals and making sure that you are testing not just severe cases that take time to sort of get to the hospital.

David Dowdy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But nobody expected to directly detect one like this because we didn't expect them to be so bright. Somehow it's converting magnetic energy to radio waves much more effectively than anything we've seen before.

Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's a type of slowly spinning neutron star that has been predicted to exist theoretically, but nobody expected to directly detect one like this because we didn't expect them to be so bright. Somehow it's converting magnetic energy to radio waves much more effectively than anything we've seen before.

Natasha Hurley-Walker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We want to go a step before that and be able to start thinking about, do we need more infectious control measures in place, do we need less people in this space? Do we need more ventilation? and also thinking about if people are at a potential risk for being infected? If we detect it within the air, there’s a good chance that maybe those people are at risk and should be quarantining.

Godri Pollitt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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