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Robotic probes have glimpsed inside the three reactors, but their investigation has been hampered by technical glitches, high radiation and other complications.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2024

Scientists have glimpsed some elements of the chemical feat by which corals pull calcium and carbonate ions from seawater and fuse them into reef-building minerals.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 24, 2023

Astronomers have glimpsed these large-scale patterns in surveys of hundreds of thousands of galaxies across huge swaths of sky.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023

Every time Rangers have glimpsed some light in the league somebody in Postecoglou's team has come along to switch it off.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2023

However, with pictures far more detailed than any view of Mars that Lowell could have glimpsed, we have found not a tributary of the vaunted canal network, not one lock.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan