experiment
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But large-scale off-grid power today is still an experiment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
"It is not worth it for Namibia to experiment on its seabed, putting its marine life and the entire movement of ocean water at risk for something as simple as phosphate," he told AFP..
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
With Iraola determined to have his wingers able to play on both sides, it remains to be seen if that experiment persists once Liverpool get more attackers in.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
She said her basketball coaches growing up let her experiment on the court—“Be crazy or be flashy,” she called it—as long as it worked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
A New York medical school professor performed an experiment to track the bullet's probable path.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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At the meeting, Jordan recounted experiments with Flock cameras he purchased legally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The narrator of “The Behavior of the Hawkweeds” ruminates on her grandfather’s childhood encounters with Gregor Mendel, the monk whose experiments with pea plants laid the groundwork for modern genetics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The team therefore plans to conduct additional experiments using even lighter atomic nuclei, including helium-4.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
His team has carried out experiments placing QR codes around his university campus and in workplaces, to study people's willingness to scan them.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
She would have sat with me for days, brainstorming different questions and experiments.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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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
ME: Do you think if location and money weren’t a factor you would have still worked with hardware, or would you have experimented more?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 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
In 2017, Danavle and her husband experimented with hydroponic strawberry farming.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
High-ranking clergymen experimented with the dangerous ideas of the void and the infinite, even though the ideas struck at the core of the ancient Greek philosophy that the church cherished so much.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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While it still has only a handful of commercial vineyards, along with smaller growers experimenting with wine production, the amount of land being planted with vineyards is continuing to grow.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Some bars, Infante noted, are already experimenting with lower-priced cocktails and expanded happy hours after discovering there may simply be a ceiling to what customers will pay for a drink.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
She began experimenting intensively with AI and added “AI adoption leader” to her LinkedIn profile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
In other words, the new fossil helps us understand a phase preceding the rise of dinosaurs and crocodiles, when their close relatives were still experimenting with different body shapes, postures, and modes of locomotion.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
There was still paint and glue stuck in his hair from when he was experimenting with fabrics earlier in the day.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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