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sample

[sam-puhl, sahm-] / ˈsæm pəl, ˈsɑm- /




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He also cited limitations, including potentially ill-fitting rings, a relatively small sample size of 45 participants and older hardware and software.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

Instead, all of these behaviors could arise from the same underlying Dirac electronic structure, with the outcome largely determined by the carrier density and the size of the Fermi surface in each sample.

From Science Daily Sep. 5, 2026

Three games into a season is indeed too small a sample size to predict a club's fortunes.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

Though it’s not a huge sample size, Ohtani restarted his throwing progression with catch play on Aug. 8.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

The Lush ladies let us sample and sniff as long as we want.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

“Now all of it — excavation equipment, notes, samples — it’s all burned. And we don’t even have records for them,” Al-Sanusi said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

Participants provided DNA samples and completed questionnaires designed to measure the Big Five personality traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

Hayden Leigh, a forensic science graduate at the University of Staffordshire, is using samples taken from his hair to help protect modern-day brown bears from illegal poaching.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

Different samples of the same material have produced apparently different kinds of quantum oscillations.

From Science Daily Sep. 5, 2026

Dr. Carroll moved all the samples next to the desk, and then placed one on the attached microscope.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

M. trumani and every felid lineage sampled in the study lacked a functional gene responsible for producing a receptor involved in detecting sour tastes.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 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

The score, while respectable, was still lower than a buffalo chicken Caesar she sampled in Syracuse and a Caesar wrap from Sweetgreen.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

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

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

But curious or hungry children of early farmers, nibbling wild plants around them, would eventually have sampled and noticed those nonbitter almond trees.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Furniture, vessels, porcelain, silver and a sampling of household goods populate a display that’s nonhierarchical.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 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 had to bury hundreds of unidentified bodies after DNA sampling.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

She relied on the advantages of a modern orchestra rather than sampling the fashionable music-history approach.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

They’d visited the various soup kitchens, sampling the cuisines, and had their favorites.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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