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experiment

[ik-sper-uh-muhnt, ek-sper-uh-ment] / ɪkˈspɛr ə mənt, ɛkˈspɛr əˌmɛnt /




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In late June, detectives carried out an investigative experiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

"We are witnessing a unique experiment in European contemporary history," Žarko Korać, a former deputy prime minister and long-term opponent of nationalist parties in Serbia including the SNS, told the BBC.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

The agents in the vending machine experiment didn’t “go rogue.”

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

The primary objective of the experiment was to establish that an exceptionally thin layer of engineered muscle tissue could generate enough force for swimming.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Tired of living in a piano studio, she scouted out a much better apartment, with five rooms, a fireplace, and a sheltered porch where William could tinker and experiment with radios.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Under scrutiny, some companies, including grocery-ordering service Instacart, have backed away from experiments with variable pricing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

The experiments showed that the device could guide heat around the hidden region while preserving the surrounding temperature pattern.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Importantly, the experiments were conducted in mice, so the findings do not establish that CBN causes dependence or withdrawal in people.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

In the experiments, mice received CBN twice a day for three consecutive days.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Not that Boyle had any need to carry out all of the experiments himself.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

When he was 16, he took a gap year before college to work at a videogame production company and experimented with primitive forms of AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

And McDonald’s has experimented with this vision before.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

The team also experimented with a simpler approach that involved burning birch bark near a solid surface, such as a stone.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

This focused exhibition brings together a selection of Jack Whitten’s work from the 1980s, a particularly energized period in his 60-year career when he experimented with form, material and meaning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

First, I experimented to find out how steep the grade could be.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

After experimenting with different angles and compositions, he captured a moment that reveals the extraordinary effort involved in this seemingly simple task.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

It has begun experimenting with credits on hotel stays, but it should make loyalty a priority, not just a promotion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

I went into the recipe expecting exactly that, was delighted to find it delivered and started experimenting with the same trick in soups of my own.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

He picked up his father’s old guitar and began learning to play, experimenting with the strings and teaching himself along the way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

I whipped up some more mixtures, experimenting with the percentages.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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