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Recent Examples of assay
Noun
And receptor binding assays assess whether chemicals can interact with specific proteins on cells and trigger harmful effects. Brad Reisfeld, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2025 Full certainty might require drill sampling and fire assays. Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Verb
The 950-pound rover could navigate treacherous lunar terrain to reach a site of interest, assay the soil’s ice content with three-foot-deep drilling and then move on to another location to do it all again. Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 24 July 2024 To recall how youths assayed the Beatles/Stones rivalry is to be reminded that when rock and roll was in its juvenescence, youths interrelated with their music heroes in a way that today seems scarcely fathomable. Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 16 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for assay
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assay
Noun
  • Sign up for the Avalanche Insider to get all our NHL analysis.
    Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Student loan delinquency rates spiked once monthly payments resumed – one analysis found roughly 9 million borrowers fell behind on their debt within months of payments restarting.
    Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Trump's probe, announced on Tuesday, is viewed as an attempt to push back on leading critical minerals producer China, and comes on top of reviews into pharmaceutical and chip imports.
    Anmol Choubey, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The team now intends to study more magnetars with Hubble in an attempt to decode their origins.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The research consortium has data from tissue samples that represents a resource the field has never had—and that is yet to be fully analyzed.
    Atul Gawande, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • His internet history was equally troubling, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which analyzed screenshots of his gaming accounts that contained Nazi and Hitler references.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Nico Williams will try to get Athletic Club's offensive attack going in this matchup.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
  • And then… follow me here… the guy Kamilla was trying to convince that Shauhin was dangerous decides to believe that Kamilla and Shauhin are… too tight!
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Androgyny plays a factor in Martine Rose, while femininity is dissected through an unabashed use of color and volume in all of Christopher John Rogers’s collections.
    Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2025
  • It has been dissected in many an op-ed or BuzzFeed breakdown, received plenty of TikTok love, and, of course, rose to millennial meme fame.
    Sharareh Drury, People.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • If a cell harbors many black morphogens, for example, and a neighboring cell harbors few of them, then the molecules strive to move such that they are distributed as evenly as possible.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The school could strive for excellence and integrity while doing fewer things.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York assessed the challenge that Donald Trump has to deal with on the economy, one of two major factors the president promised to address ahead of the 2024 election.
    Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Still, Ukrainian military and intelligence officials have assessed that the North Koreans gained crucial battlefield experience and have been key to Russia’s strategy of overwhelming Ukraine by throwing large numbers of soldiers into the battle for Kursk.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Akshay Kumar plays Nair while R Madhavan essays the role of his opposing lawyer in the film.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Additional help like rewriting or essay editing services often comes in handy.
    Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025

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“Assay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assay. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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