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beams
  • present tense form of beam (3rd person singular).

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On Beams, the album's most vulnerable song, she uses the looping structures of dance music to represent the turmoil of wanting to end a relationship.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

In creating five new isotopes, an international research team working at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, at Michigan State University has brought the stars closer to Earth.

From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2024

New projects such as the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, which opened in May 2022 at Michigan State University, will measure the nuclear properties of rare nuclei.

From Scientific American • Jan. 9, 2023

This is all taking place in the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, which is operated by Michigan State University for the U.S.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2022

Beams, for one, was convinced that Yale would never let Lawrence go.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik