sampling
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The startup, Pilgrim, has built a 50-pound tripod-mounted hardware device called Argus that is packed with sensors that combines air sampling and genomic sequencing to detect biological threats, like Ebola or anthrax.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Ancient human remains are both scientifically irreplaceable and culturally important, making sampling methods that significantly damage fossils unacceptable in many cases.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Jive Bunny records typically used synthesisers and sampling to combine contemporary pop music with hits from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
With mortuaries overflowing in Nepal, authorities have begun burying hundreds of unidentified bodies after DNA sampling.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Nothing that doesn’t look like a random sampling from the Housewares Department of the Eaton’s Catalogue.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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This is the first show devoted to this period, and it introduces an early Ray Johnson that is quite different from the one known for his later gritty samplings of popular culture.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
Because satellite measurements are not direct samplings of pollution particles, researchers must use a statistical conversion process that at least one study showed can involve a lot of error.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2022
Arbitrators reinstate about half of the fired officers whose appeals they consider, according to separate reviews of samplings of cases by The Times and a law professor.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2020
The samplings from each are largely stellar, and the installation is fresh and inventive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2018
I’ve always admired those reporters who can descend on an area, talk to key people, ask key questions, take samplings of opinions, and then set down an orderly report very like a road map.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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