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
Did the dates and times printed on these sleepy flyers arrive at some juncture somewhere in the world, and did children really congregate to do science experiments?
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Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
Psychologists doing research can use these AI personas to perform scientific experiments about the efficacy of mental health methodologies and approaches.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Led by James Tour, PhD, a chemistry and materials science and nanoengineering professor at Rice University, the study aimed to reconstruct Edison’s original light bulb experiments using modern analytical tools.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
The group’s headquarters distributes money, as well as write-ups about the results of local experiments, to the various chapters.
—Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
One of their experiments, using GPT-5, examined how the chatbot would behave in a new chat session after a user submitted text classified as supporting left- or right-wing authoritarian tendencies.
—Jared Perlo, NBC news, 23 Jan. 2026
Follow-up experiments showed that when otherwise identical recommendations differed only in whether the reviewer experienced the activity alone or with others, respondents were more likely to rely on the solo reviewer when deciding what to do.
—Peter McGraw, The Conversation, 23 Jan. 2026
Allowing that model to survive would encourage similar authoritarian experiments elsewhere.
—Duncan S. Demarsh, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
Shaun tries fixing it with science experiments, but things go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
Psychologists doing research can use these AI personas to perform scientific experiments about the efficacy of mental health methodologies and approaches.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Led by James Tour, PhD, a chemistry and materials science and nanoengineering professor at Rice University, the study aimed to reconstruct Edison’s original light bulb experiments using modern analytical tools.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
The group’s headquarters distributes money, as well as write-ups about the results of local experiments, to the various chapters.
—Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
One of their experiments, using GPT-5, examined how the chatbot would behave in a new chat session after a user submitted text classified as supporting left- or right-wing authoritarian tendencies.
—Jared Perlo, NBC news, 23 Jan. 2026
Follow-up experiments showed that when otherwise identical recommendations differed only in whether the reviewer experienced the activity alone or with others, respondents were more likely to rely on the solo reviewer when deciding what to do.
—Peter McGraw, The Conversation, 23 Jan. 2026
Allowing that model to survive would encourage similar authoritarian experiments elsewhere.
—Duncan S. Demarsh, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
Shaun tries fixing it with science experiments, but things go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for experiments
tests
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The league conducted tests at the Nashville outdoor game, stringing a cable the length of the rink between two forklifts to lift a plastic tarp over the rink.—
Joe Smith,
New York Times,
31 Jan. 2026
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Such tests could be used in research toward compressing a core of uranium with explosives — something that is needed for an implosion-style nuclear weapon.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Experiments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/experiments. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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