sample
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The sample had remained frozen since it was collected.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
To identify possible environmental sources, the scientists examined a soil sample taken from the discovery site during Ötzi's recovery in 1991.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
In the sample before Molano, there’s only one cyclospora “oocyst” on the slide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The figures are based on a representative sample of 550 forecourts, comparing the five months prior to the outbreak with the five months after it started, and extrapolated to the UK's 8,359 forecourts.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
"But first could I trouble you for a stool sample?"
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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The newly identified yeasts came from skin samples, meltwater inside the mummy, and stomach content samples.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Miranda Keith, a supervisor in Quest’s microbiology laboratory in Lenexa, Kansas, took a break from her supervisory duties last week to work 10-hour shifts examining stool samples at the company’s St. Louis lab.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The chief vet of Kenya's Wildlife Service, Dr Isaac Lekolool, told us that they had found traces of cyanide in samples taken from the elephants' stomachs.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
I imagined that my efforts would sound like Kraftwerk or Can, but because I used tropical samples to begin with, everything I did ended up sounding like música tropical.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
“He took a bunch of samples from me, including blood and some skin.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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The observations do not prove that aerosols caused the sampled clouds to become stronger.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
McFadden directly sampled the “Megamix” electro beat on “Storm,” from “The Audience’s Listening,” prefacing the drop with alien sonics before Edan and Mr. Lif deliver their rap verses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
When the war was won, the great boom in Coca-Cola’s international expansion began, fueled by a desire for the soft drink by people who had sampled it in far-flung places near the war-zone plants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Their comback album, Arirang, is a celebration of their roots - named after a traditional Korean folk song, which is sampled in the opening track Body to Body.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
They sampled it, and it did, but only for a few seconds.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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Researchers used multiple sampling techniques to determine which microorganisms lived inside Ötzi during his lifetime and which arrived after his death.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The tests are carried out by sampling teams, which operate separately from teams that run the works.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Below, a sampling of what people ages 10 to 47 keep in theirs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
What’d you make of the Notorious B.I.G.’s sampling “Rise” for his “Hypnotize”? How could you not like that record?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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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