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a set of questions or problems designed to assess knowledge, skills, or intelligence
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Find a way to recognize your child’s efforts, especially if the child struggled all term in one subject and then did well on the paper or exam.
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Michael Maguire, Boston Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
The east side of the building houses the regular exam rooms, where most patients are seen.
—Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 5 Sep. 2025
And yet it was almost always relegated to the exam room, somewhere with stirrups in sight.
—Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
The bill replaces the state’s once-a-year test with three shorter exams, to be given at the beginning, middle and end of the school year.
—Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2025
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Michael Maguire, Boston Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
The east side of the building houses the regular exam rooms, where most patients are seen.
—Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 5 Sep. 2025
And yet it was almost always relegated to the exam room, somewhere with stirrups in sight.
—Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
The bill replaces the state’s once-a-year test with three shorter exams, to be given at the beginning, middle and end of the school year.
—Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2025
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Athletic Club defender Yeray Alvarez has been handed a 10-month suspension by UEFA following a positive doping test.—
Colin Millar,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The money would provide for beginning mechanical removal of the algae mass in the most problematic areas and setting up test areas for the effectiveness of algicides, Miller said.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The Cape Fear series adaptation — created, written, and showrun by Nick Antosca — is billed as a tense, Hitchcockian thriller and an examination of America’s obsession with true crime in the 21st century.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
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New technologies are always up for examination before becoming routine, said Nathan Lents, a professor of biology at the City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice.—
Mark Morales,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Exam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exam. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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