sampling

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D-Wave Quantum: The company has cornered the market for “annealing quantum,” an approach tailored to optimization tasks like logistics and data sampling.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Three years ago, Nelligan and his colleagues, working from the backyard of a neighbor of Susan Flores, used soil vapor sampling to detect volatile organic compounds they say may be associated with decomposing human remains.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

The inspector-general’s office told MarketWatch that those estimates were based on sampling payments made to beneficiaries in the past two years, though the figures are thought to represent total cumulative underpayments to the beneficiaries.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

His group and universities are sampling water and sediment along the shore ahead of warmer weather when more people use the river.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

I collect a sampling of the soil and bring it back inside my system’s chemical laboratory.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga