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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

Webb is in a unique position as being the only referees' chief to experiment with live VAR broadcast.

From BBC 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

"At the smallest spatial scales explored in the experiment, the production rate of J/ψ particles is significantly suppressed, with a statistical significance of about three standard deviations."

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

It is appropriate to introduce a few concepts when performing songs and games with children, and also to experiment with these concepts, such as changing tempos and dynamics.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

These were in vitro experiments, meaning they took place outside a living organism rather than in people consuming the sweetener.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

Her mother did this all the time with her experiments.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

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

Nearby, in a mini-exhibit on video games, visitors are asked, “Have you ever experimented with your identity in video games?”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

As early as 1682, William Penn’s colonial government experimented with incarceration as an alternative to corporal and capital punishment.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

Migration analysts say people smugglers may be experimenting with new departure points to avoid a heavy police presence in Calais and Dunkirk.

From BBC Sep. 13, 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

"I was experimenting on chemical fertilizers," Theo replied, wincing as the doctor probed his shoulder for a glass shard.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin




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