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 Editors sampled the colas side by side, scoring them on taste, texture, and overall experience using a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest. — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2026 At that bar’s successor, Attaboy, Queen Mary managing partner Dan Smith sampled a take with Concord grapes. — Amy Cavanaugh, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026 In one Gaza City neighborhood sampled, 22% of buildings were at risk of imminent collapse. — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026 Water ecologists have sampled cooling towers in the affected area. — Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2026 The researchers sampled tissues from the liver — both healthy and cancerous — and the patient’s blood, analyzing them through a sophisticated DNA sequencing technique called NanoSeq. — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 10 Sep. 2026 While the majority were sampled in comparative tastings with similar wines, some were enjoyed at professional tastings at wineries, at dinner with winemakers, or opened by friends. — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2026 The judge said the parties now must propose a schedule for addressing the remaining claims, which involve allegations that various artists directly sampled Steely & Clevie’s sound recordings. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2026 According to one study that sampled large companies, among them BlackRock and Google, these corporations increased their number of Black employees by somewhere between 33 and 75 percent from 2020 to 2024. — Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sampled
tested
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  • The threat posed by the Greens will be tested next week when the party’s leader, Zack Polanski, contests an election to become the next Member of Parliament (MP) in London’s Holborn and St Pancras constituency – Starmer’s seat for over a decade.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Assemblymember LaShae Sharp-Collins, who authored AB 2760, argued the technology was too new and had not been sufficiently tested to be proven safe.
    — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

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“Sampled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sampled. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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