sample
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So I got a small grant, bought a swab kit and spent a semester knocking on doors to ask classmates if I could sample the bacteria on their faces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The breakthrough only came 12 years later, when Appeal was able to instruct scientists to take the sample and look again.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
But history shows this sample offers an accurate read on the entire earnings season — and the economy as a whole, according to Nick Raich, CEO at The Earnings Scout, which tracks corporate earnings trends.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
Further, phthalate exposure was measured in the pregnant women from just one urine sample in the first trimester, “which may have introduced exposure misclassification,” the paper notes.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026
The only foolproof way to secure Bobby’s DNA was to take a sample from Bobby’s body.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Vocabulary lists containing sample
Statistics and Probability - Middle School
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Scientific Investigation and Reasoning
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for September 4–September 10, 2021
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