guinea pig
Example Sentences
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You don’t want your guest to be a guinea pig.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Other advice included moving rabbit and guinea pig pens to shaded areas and ensure indoor enclosures for pets like hamsters were not in direct sunlight.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
"I wouldn't want to be the first guinea pig," as "it's not so easy to have everything just smooth" like Apple has managed to do with its laptops.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
As he buttoned up a professional baseball uniform for the first time in his life, he understood that he was becoming the guinea pig in an experiment that has the whole industry watching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
Southwest, the llama / alpaca and the guinea pig in the Andes, the Muscovy duck in tropical South America, and the dog throughout the Americas.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
