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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
X-ray .
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Examples
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But the notion of X-rayed food also sparked a lively debate in The Salt's comments section on whether this poses a health threat.
News 2012
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They then X-rayed the container and found that the shipment of sardines inside was suspiciously overweight.
Huge Illegal Shipment of Elephant Tusks Seized in Thailand 2011
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Dnipropetrovsk chief veterinarian Oleksandr Shushlenko says the croc will be X-rayed next week but will undergo surgery only as a last resort because it would be dangerous for him -- and the vets.
Constipated crocodile who swallowed a cellphone is depressed 2011
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Yet as far back as 1998, radiation experts were warning against using X-ray scanners to peer beneath people's clothing in the search for weapons and contraband, insisting that the machines violate a longstanding principle in radiation safety -- that humans shouldn't be X-rayed unless there is a medical benefit.
John W. Whitehead: Cancer-Causing Airport Scanners? Enough Is Enough John W. Whitehead 2011
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The guard grunts me forward, to have my backpack X-rayed, and to wait to file through a metal detector.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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Yet as far back as 1998, radiation experts were warning against using X-ray scanners to peer beneath people's clothing in the search for weapons and contraband, insisting that the machines violate a longstanding principle in radiation safety -- that humans shouldn't be X-rayed unless there is a medical benefit.
John W. Whitehead: Cancer-Causing Airport Scanners? Enough Is Enough John W. Whitehead 2011
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He finds a home there because English departments are less concerned with the consideration of literature per se than with what novels, poems, plays and essays—after being properly X-rayed, frisked, padded down, like so many suspicious-looking air travelers—might yield on the subjects of race, class and gender.
What Killed American Lit. Joseph Epstein 2011
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They then X-rayed the container and found that the shipment of sardines inside was suspiciously overweight.
Huge Illegal Shipment of Elephant Tusks Seized in Thailand 2011
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Yet as far back as 1998, radiation experts were warning against using X-ray scanners to peer beneath people's clothing in the search for weapons and contraband, insisting that the machines violate a longstanding principle in radiation safety -- that humans shouldn't be X-rayed unless there is a medical benefit.
John W. Whitehead: Cancer-Causing Airport Scanners? Enough Is Enough John W. Whitehead 2011
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They then X-rayed the container and found that the shipment of sardines inside was suspiciously overweight.
Huge Illegal Shipment of Elephant Tusks Seized in Thailand 2011
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