experiment
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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
He has lost his team, starting with his ridiculous Australian experiment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Stephanie and Maddy are always in the sixth-grade hallway, asking their friends to taste their latest baking experiment.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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Although the findings come from experiments in mice and isolated mouse liver cells, they provide new insight into how hormonal changes and diet may interact to influence liver health.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
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
Because spiders sense their surroundings differently from people, the researchers first had to identify a sound stimulus that would produce a consistent response during their experiments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Despite these obstacles, the combination of behavioral monitoring, response testing, and sleep disruption experiments allowed the researchers to build a detailed picture of how these spiders sleep.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
“Let’s try it,” said Jo, who liked new experiments.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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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
Since the start of the 20th century, when the British Royal Navy experimented with radio jamming and intercepting enemy communications, the vulnerability of radio signals has been exploited in combat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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
To be fair, Hucbald merely experimented with this concept rather than invented it; it had been circulating in musical theories since antiquity, as indeed it had in Indian and Chinese musical systems.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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
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
Scientists in Czechoslovakia are experimenting with protozoa against webworms and other insect pests, and in the United States a protozoan parasite has been found to reduce the egg- laying potential of the corn borer.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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