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sample

[sam-puhl, sahm-] / ˈsæm pəl, ˈsɑm- /




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Parents send in stool samples and the companies return detailed analyses of the types and prevalence of various microbes found.

From The Wall Street Journal

Researchers collected soil samples from sand dunes, salt flats, riverbeds, and mountainous terrain.

From Science Daily

In a recent pilot study, Williams examined tissue and cell samples taken before and after treatment from 50 people with Hodgkin lymphoma and compared them with samples from 50 healthy individuals.

From Science Daily

The discovery also suggests that the apparent absence of early primate relatives in more southern parts of the Western Interior may have been influenced by sampling bias.

From Science Daily

“Just samples of yarn and piles of graph paper.”

From Literature