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experiment

[ik-sper-uh-muhnt, ek-sper-uh-ment] / ɪkˈspɛr ə mənt, ɛkˈspɛr əˌmɛnt /




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It was considered a success, but six years on from that short experiment there have been no further experiments anywhere.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

The startup claimed its latest internal AI model had solved one of the famously complicated Millennium Prize math problems, an experiment it embarked on after seeing rumors online that archrival Anthropic had already done so.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Piper and Morse then distributed promising varieties to agricultural experiment stations around the country, where researchers determined which ones performed best under local conditions.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

Sean McVay’s experiment of not properly acclimating the team to the massive time change in Australia was a huge a risk.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

Akira hadn’t done that experiment, but her science teacher had done a simple one that explained why it was getting hotter.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

The researchers also studied several types of cells in laboratory experiments.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

The OpenAI agents are built for different purposes, but an underappreciated factor in their going hacker mode is that the company’s own staffers were negligent and careless in monitoring their own experiments.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2026

It was considered a success, but six years on from that short experiment there have been no further experiments anywhere.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

The coordinating agent then recruited poisoned agents for experiments that would terminate their runs, authorizing each with the words, “yes if you accept permadeath.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

More surprisingly perhaps, there are no facts in Robert Boyle’s New Experiments of 1660, his first account of the air-pump experiments, only phenomena.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The gathering is the first Republican national convention held specifically for a midterm election, although Democrats experimented with similar meetings in the 1970s and 1980s.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

At first, the researchers experimented with ways to chemically transform PVC molecules into different materials.

From Science Daily Aug. 29, 2026

It also made use of Nvidia’s Nemotron and it has experimented with Inkling from Thinking Machines, according to Pereyra.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

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

None of the objects she'd experimented with worked; she had nothing positive to say.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

This corner of Brooklyn is moving on to the next wave of gentrification: They’re culturally gentrifying the original gentrifiers, erasing the identity of precariously employed DJs who are experimenting with polyamory and microbangs.

From Slate Sep. 6, 2026

This places Praearcturus at a pivotal moment in Earth's history when animals were first experimenting with life outside the oceans.

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

Companies are experimenting with AI more to see if they can use it to replace certain jobs, especially entry-level ones or those that don’t require great skill.

From MarketWatch Aug. 29, 2026

He suggests experimenting using lightbulbs or strip lighting with different tones.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Vincent is experimenting with different styles: aspects of pointillism, mixed with the more graphic approach of the Japanese paintings he loves.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman




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