sampling
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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
For the first time, the sampling covered nearly the entire geographic range of gentoo penguins.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 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
She relied on the advantages of a modern orchestra rather than sampling the fashionable music-history approach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Then there were all the diseases one is vulnerable to in the woods—giardiasis, eastern equine encephalitis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, schistosomiasis, brucellosis, and shigellosis, to offer but a sampling.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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
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
The samplings from each are largely stellar, and the installation is fresh and inventive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2018
I’ve always admired those reporters who can descend on an area, talk to key people, ask key questions, take samplings of opinions, and then set down an orderly report very like a road map.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
