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experiment

[ik-sper-uh-muhnt, ek-sper-uh-ment] / ɪkˈspɛr ə mənt, ɛkˈspɛr əˌmɛnt /




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In late June, detectives carried out an investigative experiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

"We are witnessing a unique experiment in European contemporary history," Žarko Korać, a former deputy prime minister and long-term opponent of nationalist parties in Serbia including the SNS, told the BBC.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Let’s jump down this legal escape hatch via a recent experiment conducted at Harvard Business School.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

He has lost his team, starting with his ridiculous Australian experiment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Mr. Skerritt said it was okay to experiment.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

Once undocked, the Orion crew will spend the rest of their mission carrying out additional tests of their capsule and carrying out science experiments, before returning home.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Under scrutiny, some companies, including grocery-ordering service Instacart, have backed away from experiments with variable pricing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Importantly, the experiments were conducted in mice, so the findings do not establish that CBN causes dependence or withdrawal in people.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

It also means that some previous experiments, particularly those measuring the overall properties of these materials, may need to be reconsidered.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

It is a key feature of his work that Galileo always carried out experiments to test hypotheses, modifying or abandoning those hypotheses if the outcomes of the experiments did not match their predictions.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

She emphasized the hand-played over the programmed, and experimented with swings in volume and tempo, adding a level of unpredictability absent in much of modern pop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

And McDonald’s has experimented with this vision before.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Brands such as Balmain, Levi's and H&M have experimented with the technology, they said.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

This focused exhibition brings together a selection of Jack Whitten’s work from the 1980s, a particularly energized period in his 60-year career when he experimented with form, material and meaning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

To be fair, Hucbald merely experimented with this concept rather than invented it; it had been circulating in musical theories since antiquity, as indeed it had in Indian and Chinese musical systems.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Sodipo said that earlier this year she encouraged her staff, which was experimenting with AI, to focus on bigger projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

I went into the recipe expecting exactly that, was delighted to find it delivered and started experimenting with the same trick in soups of my own.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

He picked up his father’s old guitar and began learning to play, experimenting with the strings and teaching himself along the way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Okanagan Specialty Fruits is already experimenting with cameras from a Canadian firm called Vivid Machines.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“I’ve been experimenting with making letters out of different kinds of dough. I stand the letters up in the cupcake batter and carefully cover them with more batter.”

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt


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