sampled

past tense of sample
as in tested
to put (something) to a test sampled the soup to see if it tasted good

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Recent Examples of sampled Or are younger, progressive voters who might be open to democratic socialism being over-sampled due to their very public enthusiasm? Chris Brennan, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026 More difficult sections are then sampled more frequently, while a minimum sampling probability prevents easier skills from being forgotten. Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026 Because every bottle of whiskey available at Jack Rose can be ordered, and is priced to be sampled, rather than ogled, the whiskey list at Jack Rose is ever changing. Don Tse, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 Hakim, a genre chameleon who has performed as a sideman for Adrianne Lenker, made a record with the jazz saxophonist Roy Nathanson, and been sampled by T-Pain, has also claimed minimalist icons Steve Reich and Terry Riley as influences. Mitch Therieau, Pitchfork, 30 July 2026 While Ramses may continue its operations for a number of months, NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX mission—the name for the extended mission of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which sampled the asteroid Bennu—is set to swoop in after Apophis buzzes Earth. Andrew Jones, Scientific American, 30 July 2026 It was later found that 23% to 37% of those sampled had confirmed melanoma lesions, a type of skin cancer, according to a new study published in Nature. Dr. Yonathan Daniel, ABC News, 25 July 2026 In a press briefing Monday, FDA officials explained that the test result was from lettuce sampled at the border that was not included in Taylor Farms’ recall. Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026 On May 28, Johnson received results finding that the DNA profile sampled from one of Brown’s soda bottles could not be excluded as the contributor of the male blood from the victim’s nightgown, the detective wrote. Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
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  • To bridge this gap, the US Navy tested AI on Seahawk helicopters as an assistant to human aircrews.
    David Szondy August 12, New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The researchers synthesized spinnable fibers with transition temperatures of approximately 30 and 60 degrees Celsius, then tested variables including spinning temperature, spinneret diameter and take-up speed on laboratory and pilot-scale equipment.
    Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 13 Aug. 2026

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“Sampled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sampled. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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