Thesaurus results for EXPERIMENTS

experiments

noun

plural of experiment

as in tests

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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Recent Examples of experiments In one series of experiments, Cao and his team processed 21 million cells, sampled from 14 tissues or organs in about 50 male and female mice at five life stages, and built a data set of gene expression for each cell. — Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026 In the study, the researchers assembled a group of more than 9,300 people—some doctors, some other medical caregivers, some from the general population—and ran 14 different experiments on them. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Aug. 2026 Do scientists run genetic experiments on them, leading to some kind of real-world Jurassic (bird) Park? — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026 Training used as many as 128 GPUs and approximately 21,000 GPU hours, with experiments showing progressively better tracking and generalization as data, model size, and compute increased. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026 The launch comes as financial institutions move AI from copilots and experiments into production systems capable of taking action. — Nicole Casperson, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 With the experiments and the team of scientists chosen, two rehearsal flights were conducted before the actual flight, which took off from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands for a rendezvous with the eclipse shadow over Mauritania. — Dhananjay Khadilkar, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026 Most organizations were running experiments and distributing a limited number of licenses. — Bryan Murphy, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026 The Chinese government destroyed the records and samples of the experiments. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026

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tests

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Tromso’s substantial first-leg cushion did at least provide Brighton head coach Fabian Hurzeler and his staff with a bit more time to prepare for the tests that await them.

— Andy Naylor, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
For example, a European Space Agency program to demonstrate small, suborbital hops called Themis was originally supposed to perform low-altitude hop tests by 2022.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026