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observation

[ob-zur-vay-shuhn] / ˌɒb zɜrˈveɪ ʃən /




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Over 93 hours of observation, the scientists documented encounters in which one insect interrupted another's feeding or prevented it from reaching a flower.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

While AI can generate candidate molecules and assist in trial design, it cannot test drugs on non-human primates or accelerate the biological timeline required for human observation.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

What a glorious, warm and strangely pertinent observation — something Eleanor couldn’t have understood the relevance of at the time.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

The problem is that the training of robots is overly reliant on lab data, instead of data based on observation of people performing tasks in the real world, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

“Yeah. Like, you’d come spend the night at my place. Then we could do the observation together. It would be totally safe and chaperoned by my dad. An important outing for the sake of science.”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

The researchers say the findings build on earlier observations of facial signals in conversation by showing that such movements do not simply accompany speech but actively shape how it is understood.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

"Sometimes even government voters laughed at our observations," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

They compared railway timetables and newspaper reports with observations of solar activity, accounts of auroras, and digitized measurements of Earth's magnetic field.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

X-ray observations are especially valuable because they reveal extreme activity that other types of light can miss.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Mother made a few observations about the food, then she laughed nervously and was silent.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover


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