specimen
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Back to the garden center we went, bringing a leaf as a specimen.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
The Attenboroughnculus tau is native to the Patagonian lakes of Chile, and a specimen was recently found in the museum's collection, four decades after it was collected.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
The wistful, lovely song is accompanied by weird visuals of the aliens, who look like praying mantises, admiring the human specimen through the room’s windows, applauding when she goes to the bathroom and taking pictures.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
Scientists also compared the specimen to a similar object collected in 2021 during an expedition aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute's Research Vessel Falkor, finding matching cellular structures.
From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026
Saget looked at Langan oddly, as if he were some kind of laboratory specimen.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing specimen
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Common Senses: Spec, Spect, Spic ("Look")
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