experiment
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In that experiment, the cat is imagined to be both alive and dead until the box is opened and its condition is observed.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026
"I was super proud of Cruel World and, when you've got that in your back pocket, there's room to experiment and break some of your usual parameters."
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
Like Adobe, most of these programs let you experiment with creating lo-res images free, but you’ll need a subscription to do the kind of heavy lifting involved in my project, generating 23 hi-resolution illustrations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
To explore this difference, Coles worked with researchers Annabel Dang and Joao Francisco Goes Braga Takayanagi to design an experiment that more closely resembled the demands of customer service jobs.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
Dr. Doris was talking, and I was trying to listen—really, I was—but in my head I was turning her into an experiment.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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The collaboration began at the 2023 American Physical Society March Meeting, where Jin met Japanese researchers capable of producing the specialized crystals needed for the experiments.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026
The graphene experiments have already provided an important clue.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
His audience has grown well beyond the underground following he garnered in his early experiments with electronic production.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
Through laboratory experiments, the researchers found that TRF2 levels change as muscle stem cells move between these different stages.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
I look at the glass and wonder how many weird chemicals and experiments have been in there—the germ thing never lets up—but the water does look good.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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China for decades enforced a "one child" policy to curb population growth before ending it in 2016, while nations such as Vietnam and Iran have experimented with measures to limit families to two kids.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Investors—a group that included Adobe, Apple, and Borders—were footing the bills while we experimented.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026
While other parts of Europe have experimented with a blackout, it is now only present in the UK between 2:45pm and 5:15pm on a Saturday.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
We’ve experimented with retirement simulations of our own, but we struggle to get the projected probability of success below 90%, much less find a realistic path toward exhausting our assets over the next 30 years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
“She doesn’t want to be experimented on, either.”
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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Elsewhere, firms are experimenting with management services organizations, which bring in outside capital without granting an ownership stake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Google has been experimenting with different ad formats within AI surfaces, Flax told MarketWatch, and he believes the company will be able to effectively monetize those conversational queries in the long term.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
The college has been experimenting in its canteen, external, offering staff and students root-to-tip meals, such as banana skin curry.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Some Canadian cities are experimenting with subsidies to help residents cover cooling costs, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Though it had been experimenting with other philosophies for several centuries, when threatened with schism it turned orthodox once again.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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