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laboratory

[lab-ruh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, lab-er-uh-, luh-bor-uh-tuh-ree, -uh-tree] / ˈlæb rəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˈlæb ər ə-, ləˈbɒr ə tə ri, -ə tri /
NOUN
testing room
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Traps have been installed at the airport and mosquitoes captured will be analysed in a laboratory to determine their species and origin.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

His own laboratory has begun exploring this direction by drawing on ideas from embodied cognition and ecological psychology.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

He survived partly by working at a German laboratory.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Preliminary laboratory tests have found traces of cyanide in samples of the crops taken from the elephants' stomachs.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

The original Watson and Crick model of DNA, with its hammered metal plates and rickety rods twisting precariously around a steel laboratory stand, is housed behind a glass case.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Some hollow core fibers can be filled with gases or liquids, allowing them to map temperature distributions or even function as tiny laboratories for chemical experiments.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

Coordination with universities and independent laboratories will be required as these organizations provide support for implementing the new policy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

At field stations and in Stanford laboratories, the scientists measured how much oxygen each organism consumed under different water temperatures.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

Britain's national laboratories — the government-owned sites and expert teams that build and run the country's big scientific machines — face the deepest squeeze.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

In 1926 and 1928, Loomis and Wood sailed to Europe to tour its great laboratories.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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