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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

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

"However, every single particle has a different structure," warns Weissenborn, "and our experiment only studied six such particles from two different locations."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

About the time of the Pascals' conversion, a friend of Étienne’s—a military engineer—came to visit and repeated Torricelli’s experiment for the Pascals.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

They also found that the gene signature became less prominent after senescent cells were removed in preclinical experiments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

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

Earlier experiments had succeeded only with extremely thin magnetic structures containing no more than three magnetic layers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

One major challenge is the specialized ultrafast laser required for the experiments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

Cesi writes, ‘We know by daily experiments that the power of the lodestone is weakened by garlic.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

He also has told colleagues that he wants the company, which has experimented with everything from videogames to podcasts, to strengthen its core TV and movie offerings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

And McDonald’s has experimented with this vision before.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

The team also experimented with a simpler approach that involved burning birch bark near a solid surface, such as a stone.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

I experimented with potato skin tea a few weeks ago.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Together, these discoveries reveal that long before modern mammals became dominant, their ancient relatives were already experimenting with an impressive range of ways to survive.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Recast Systems in San Francisco is experimenting with a type of protein made from amino acids found in the soil, says CEO Olivia Li.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

I whipped up some more mixtures, experimenting with the percentages.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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