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sample

[sam-puhl, sahm-] / ˈsæm pəl, ˈsɑm- /




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That makes it challenging to separate, identify, and distinguish one compound from another within an already complex plant sample.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The sample is from JMSN’s song “Love Me,” who said on X that he did not authorize license of the song.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

The private RatingDog PMI, which has generally outperformed lately because of its more export-oriented sample, is out the same day, ING noted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

NHS England said that the genomic test, which works by quickly analysing the genetic code of a sample of the tumour, will be piloted in specialist centres around England.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Rabiya gives me a hug and hands me another sample.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

The result was observed only in tissue samples, so it does not yet show that the same approach will work in living cats or people.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

The researchers examined samples from DOM 08006, a meteorite found in 2008 in Dominion Range, a mountain range along the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

BBC News has seen samples of stolen "fitness-for-work" medical examinations containing information such as blood and urine test results, along with doctors' notes mentioning conditions including a "shellfish and banana allergy".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The samples are prepared for loading into a shoebox-sized sequencing machine made by Oxford Nanopore, which uses specialist software developed at the University of Nottingham, in partnership with hospital clinicians.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

We each will have a chemistry lab built inside our bodies so that we will be able to collect samples from Mars’s soil and analyze it.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

All the caviar we sampled looked pristine, but some roe tasted like a big ol’ gulp of the ocean, including two varieties from Imperia, a limited edition Petrusco offering, and Roe House’s Hackleback.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The song gained popularity when it was first released in 2008, but it became known worldwide in 2016 when Canadian rapper Drake sampled it on his chart-topping single One Dance.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Perry and her partner, Canada's former prime minister Justin Trudeau, sampled the delights of Mykonos.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

He also wrote Teddy Pendergrass’ “Love T.K.O.,” which was famously sampled in Ahmed Lewis’ 1994 nostalgic hip-hop single, “Back in the Day,” among others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

After about ten tables I'm stuffed, and we’ve only sampled a small number of the dishes available.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

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

"These things can change rapidly, so capturing that baseline data now means we'll have something accurate to compare against in future sampling dates."

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

To determine where the stones came from, the researchers used a new low-impact sampling technique.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

With mortuaries overflowing in Nepal, authorities have begun burying hundreds of unidentified bodies after DNA sampling.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

He listened to my heart and lungs, his bald head dipping on the long neck like that of a brontosaurus, sampling leaves.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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