assays 1 of 2

plural of assay

assays

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of assay

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of assays
Noun
But while most of that capital flows into drug discovery, the white space is in clinical infrastructure—where predictive assays can shift spend from catastrophic claims to actuarial foresight. Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assays
Noun
  • The analyses also found that modern rodents descend from a common ancestor thousands of years ago that had thumbnails.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Kennedy also refused to say during the hearing that over one million Americans died from COVID-19 -- as recorded by the CDC -- and that COVID-19 vaccines saved millions of lives, as determined by analyses.
    Will McDuffie, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And the algicide attempts may not have worked because the biomass of blue-green algae was just too large for effects to be detected.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Lifetime, Prater was 23-of-24 on those attempts that happened in the last two minutes of regulation or in overtime.
    Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • To train Voyager, researchers developed software that automatically analyzes existing videos to process camera movements and calculate depth for every frame—eliminating the need for humans to manually label thousands of hours of footage.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Doctors can also take endometrial biopsies and hysteroscopies, which analyzes period tissue, and can help catch pre-cancer earlier.
    Sam Manzella, Flow Space, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In selfie mode, the 43-year-old rolls her eyes in jest and tries her hardest to smile.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • One attempt to stop the missile spectacularly bombs, like a bullet hitting a bullet, as the military tries to intercept the missile with its own, Baker incensed by the failure of a $50-billion coin toss to land heads up.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • However, investigations into the cause are ongoing.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • At the very least, the government can mire the university in many costly and time-consuming investigations.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These nation-wide country-goes-city celebrations of agricultural bounty, mechanical innovations and skilled handcrafts have been drawing crowds since the first fair was held in upstate New York in 1841.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Now retired, Andra loved her job working for the federal government and strives to make a difference in the world around her.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The brand strives to offer a premium denim look at prices more accessible than other premium denim brands.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Shorter sci-fi stabs meet surging upward flourishes which also link Believe stylistically to disco and Hi-NRG, associating the track with certain gay subcultural histories.
    Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 9 Aug. 2025

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“Assays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assays. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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