experiment
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Sean McVay’s experiment of not properly acclimating the team to the massive time change in Australia was a huge a risk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
AI career platform Kickresume carried out an experiment to see which resumes got the best responses, using a sample of over 200 resumes between April and June 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
As long ago as 2003, the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom invented a thought experiment he dubbed a "paperclip maximiser", in which a superintelligent AI is told to manufacture as many paperclips as it can.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The prevailing wisdom had been that companies should provide employees with AI tools to experiment with.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
No scary movie, failed experiment, or broken cell phone came close to the fear now pumping my heart at a hundred thousand beats per minute.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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The experiments were led by Eliza Cornell, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Lončar lab who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Boston University, and Zhujing Xu, a former postdoctoral scholar in Lončar's group.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Scientists at the Energy Department said they are preparing for the possibility of conducting new experiments that will mirror China’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Once completed, Pacific Fusion’s facility will produce more than 1,000 times more fusion power than the government-operated machine that was put into service for weapons experiments after the U.S. stopped underground blasts in 1992.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The researchers now want to determine which genes are primarily responsible for the antitumor effects seen in the experiments.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
I look at the glass and wonder how many weird chemicals and experiments have been in there—the germ thing never lets up—but the water does look good.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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The gathering is the first Republican national convention held specifically for a midterm election, although Democrats experimented with similar meetings in the 1970s and 1980s.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
At first, the researchers experimented with ways to chemically transform PVC molecules into different materials.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Furthermore, the company has experimented with a new “asset-light” option that allows customers to deploy Nebius’ AI cloud offerings within their own data centers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Nearby, in a mini-exhibit on video games, visitors are asked, “Have you ever experimented with your identity in video games?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The steam engine was the product of seventeenth-century science, which had experimented with vacuums, and with air and steam pressure.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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This corner of Brooklyn is moving on to the next wave of gentrification: They’re culturally gentrifying the original gentrifiers, erasing the identity of precariously employed DJs who are experimenting with polyamory and microbangs.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
This places Praearcturus at a pivotal moment in Earth's history when animals were first experimenting with life outside the oceans.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
Less than three weeks later, Americans began experimenting with another way fast food might carry meaning.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
In the posts that followed, Modi's team appeared to respond to some of that criticism, experimenting with different camera angles, backdrops and lighting.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The potter would bark terse commands, which Tree-ear struggled to satisfy by whatever means were available to him—watching Min, watching other potters, experimenting.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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