experiment
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In late June, detectives carried out an investigative experiment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Let’s jump down this legal escape hatch via a recent experiment conducted at Harvard Business School.
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
One cyber security researcher told me he'd been up all night trying to do it as an experiment, but it was proving very difficult.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
For Adams, the American Revolution was still an experiment, a sail into uncharted waters that no other ship of state had ever successfully navigated.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Once undocked, the Orion crew will spend the rest of their mission carrying out additional tests of their capsule and carrying out science experiments, before returning home.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
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
By separating resistance from the fluid itself from the confinement imposed by channel walls, the researchers could investigate viscosity without the additional mechanical interference that complicates conventional experiments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
How many people’s DNA had been used in experiments without them even knowing?
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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And McDonald’s has experimented with this vision before.
From Salon ● 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
But we’re seeing AI very differently now that we’ve experimented with it and have a bit more notches on our belts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
A memorial has been created at a school where boys were experimented on and infected with HIV and hepatitis.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Rutherford experimented by bombarding gold foils with alpha particles emanating from a glass vial of purified radium.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Nvidia, Ubisoft and other huge tech companies are already experimenting with generative AI systems that allow players to hold more natural conversations with NPCs.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Together, these discoveries reveal that long before modern mammals became dominant, their ancient relatives were already experimenting with an impressive range of ways to survive.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 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
As early as the 19th century, vintners began experimenting with dealcoholized wine using a process known as vacuum distillation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
“Nah,” she said, turning her attention back to V, who was experimenting with her fingers on different keys.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
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