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experiment

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




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A team from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology carried out an experiment in which 15 6- and 7-year-olds and 16 adults first sat for a short test to assess their baseline creativity skills.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 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 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

When Uncle Jet found out that Nathan was using the cornfield for his experiment, he agreed to fix the cornfield posts.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

To investigate the system, the researchers combined genetic information from people with congenital heart defects with experiments involving zebrafish, human cells and mouse stem cells.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

RSI runs on inference with thousands of agents constantly writing code, launching experiments and reading results, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal 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

The researchers combined genetic analyses of patients with congenital heart defects with experiments involving zebrafish, mouse stem cells, and cellular models.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

This is less true when we turn to experiments.

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

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

At her and Aggrey’s last rental home, she had experimented with growing plants in their tiny yard.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

It has changed and evolved as composers experimented with new sounds, ideas, and even new or evolving instruments.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

You increase it through metacognition, through imagining multiple possible explanations, and through experimenting in small ways that let you learn without losing everything.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

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

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

“We blow it up, experimenting with new fuels for our flying saucers. A Tralfamadorian test pilot presses a starter button, and the whole Universe disappears.”

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut




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