experiment
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FIFA’s halftime experiment proved less controversial than many feared.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
That match indicates that the experiment closely reproduces the processes believed to occur in real cosmic environments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Wolter, 75, is careful to note he didn’t disappear into the experiment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
He had a new experiment he was excited to work on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
“Interesting,” Hecate said, as if Hazel were an unexpected result in a science experiment.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Wangchuk studied mechanical engineering after a relative noticed his experiments with concave mirrors to brighten dark buildings and cook food.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
In a separate set of experiments, environmental engineer Dr. Amit Kumar combined cold atmospheric plasma with gas dispersion to destroy PFAS.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
The researchers tested PLATON's spatial resolution in laboratory experiments using light levels ranging from several hundred detected photons down to only five.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
His ideas were controversial until they were confirmed by experiments over three decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
At Riverbank, he lived in a damp windmill, where he did experiments with fruit flies and African violets.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Even so, sonic adventurers, beginning with Leopold Stokowski in the 1930s, experimented with amplification in an obsessive, seemingly quixotic effort to locate a mythical sonic grail on the Cahuenga Pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Earlier in the year, the Dodgers had experimented at times with giving Ohtani the day off from hitting when he pitched.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
After the 2008 great financial crisis, I experimented with everything Americans were told to do with money to see if what worked in the past fits the present.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
Other investment banks have experimented with staffing their jobs abroad with mixed results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
They experimented with one expression and then another, said nothing, though their mouths were often open.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
On 31 August 1968 at Swansea, Sobers was looking for some quick runs to set up a Notts declaration - and decided to take on Glamorgan seamer Malcolm Nash, who was experimenting with left-arm spin.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
They are constantly tweaking interview questions, experimenting with slightly different test variations and searching for ways to improve models for predicting future performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Olivia, originally from Conwy, loved experimenting with styling and clothes as a teenager.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Korkejian sourced many of those sounds from instruments she first picked up as a child, returning to the trumpet — her second instrument after piano — and experimenting with tuba and valve trombone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Your journey has finally come to an end, and I hope you had as much fun as I did exploring, investigating, and experimenting!
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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