sampling
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"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
Admittedly, these are anecdotes not data: the Big Wasp Survey – the only national wasp monitoring survey – is yet to start sampling this summer.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Furniture, vessels, porcelain, silver and a sampling of household goods populate a display that’s nonhierarchical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 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
Some grapes have spilled out from those red-eyed guys sampling before buying.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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
Mr. McLaughlin said good rules of thumb for pollsters are to use voter lists, rather than random samplings of adults.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
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
Positive results in Martian microbiology were achieved in seven different samplings in two locales on Mars separated by 5,000 kilometers.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
