as in test
a procedure or operation carried out to resolve an uncertainty
Benjamin Franklin's famous experiment in which he flew a kite in a thunderstorm to see if lightning and electricity were identical
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His goal is to automate the drudgery of laboratory research, making experiments faster, more accurate and easier to perform.
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Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
Jason reminds Daisy there’s no guarantee Alesia will do well in interior, either; this is just an experiment.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2026
Some of those experiments are conducted in tunnels where nuclear testing once occurred.
—Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 17 Feb. 2026
That could lead to a wave of new products, said Yohei Nakajima, a partner at Untapped Capital whose 2023 open source experiment called BabyAGI helped demonstrate how LLMs could autonomously generate and execute tasks—which helped kick off the modern AI agent movement.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
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Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
Jason reminds Daisy there’s no guarantee Alesia will do well in interior, either; this is just an experiment.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2026
Some of those experiments are conducted in tunnels where nuclear testing once occurred.
—Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 17 Feb. 2026
That could lead to a wave of new products, said Yohei Nakajima, a partner at Untapped Capital whose 2023 open source experiment called BabyAGI helped demonstrate how LLMs could autonomously generate and execute tasks—which helped kick off the modern AI agent movement.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for experiment
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The Caucasian couple realized the baby was not of the same race, and genetic tests ordered by Score and Mills confirmed the baby was not their biological child.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 Feb. 2026
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Tupay and other plus-size park content creators put those resources to the test, to see how plus-size friendly Epic Universe can be.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Experiment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/experiment. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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