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experiment

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




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“I’m just dipping my toe in.… It’s still an experiment for me,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Neither did thousands of other residents in Homer, Alaska, who later discovered San Francisco start-up Rainmaker conducted an experiment in that region using cloud-seeding technology.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The experiment failed — none of the quartet advanced beyond Class-A — yet Fontaine maintained the sunny outlook he inherited from his father.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

The reality is more interesting, as our new research on a long-forgotten experiment in Victoria’s mountain ash forests reveals.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

As they clicked through experiment after experiment, Dr. Wright’s voice got more and more dejected with each failed attempt.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Earlier experiments have also suggested that the relationship may work in both directions, with D3 supplementation sometimes reducing D2-derived metabolites.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

“An accurate predictive model of biology could dramatically accelerate scientific discovery by enabling scientists to perform experiments digitally,” Biohub’s head of science Alex Rives said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Freeman, the Alaska director of the Center for Biological Diversity, isn't just concerned Homer residents weren't widely alerted to these experiments.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

That approach could serve as a practical way to study other aromatic materials under normal home conditions rather than relying entirely on laboratory experiments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Tamika was coming over later and we were going to brainstorm possible experiments for our YouTube channel, Science Rocks, hosted by the two greatest scientists in the universe, after Einstein, of course.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

The group filled arenas across the West, collaborated with major American artists, experimented with hip-hop and electronic music, and turned their own fashion and creative identities into part of their appeal.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The gathering is the first Republican national convention held specifically for a midterm election, although Democrats experimented with similar meetings in the 1970s and 1980s.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

At first, the researchers experimented with ways to chemically transform PVC molecules into different materials.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

It also made use of Nvidia’s Nemotron and it has experimented with Inkling from Thinking Machines, according to Pereyra.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The Gabrielis also experimented with placing clusters of singers and instrumentalists in different pockets of the building, a technique known as antiphony, meaning ‘voices against each other’, or poly choral, ‘many choirs’.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

As early as the 19th century, vintners began experimenting with dealcoholized wine using a process known as vacuum distillation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The lawsuit carries constitutional implications for other places around the U.S. experimenting with second-home taxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Researchers can refine scanning methods and computer algorithms on expendable models rather than experimenting directly on irreplaceable ancient artifacts.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Sometimes it was random doodles, but lately I’d been experimenting with graffiti—tagging, specifically—because some tagging techniques reminded me of highly stylized Persian calligraphy.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi




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