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trial run

noun

Definition of trial run

as in test-drive

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Recent Examples of trial run Safe Streets, a division of MONSE, said all employees also go through a background check and then a trial run working in community intervention before they are hired. — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 9 June 2026 The first step in 2022’s trial run was to lower a collector more than two miles deep to the bottom of the sea. — Harry Stevens, New York Times, 3 June 2026 Before being laid out on the White House lawn, it was assembled and de-assambled in Warwick Township, Pennsylvania, during what officials called a trial run. — Mike Stunson, USA Today, 29 May 2026 The company behind the plan has already begun pilot testing in preparation for a 100-home trial run this year. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 12 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for trial run

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Noun

About 200,000 such observations, spanning July 2022 to June 2025, formed the dataset the team used to measure Earth’s frame dragging.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
Since the law first gained recognition, numerous other laws and observations similar to Murphy’s law have been put forth that apply to a variety of situations.

— Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 July 2026

Definition of observation

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Users who download the Caesars Rewards app gain access to exclusive user offers, reward tracking, and an express checkout option that’s quick and easy.

— Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 July 2026
Instead of ending the customer relationship at checkout, rental platforms create an ongoing conversation long after the transaction is complete.

— Angela Chan-Danisi, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of checkout

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Over the next two decades, records are few, most of them noting criminal convictions for fighting in bars, stealing a watch, deserting a whaling ship, and beating his wife.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
For a neighborhood-style atmosphere semifinal watch party, The Brightside is a small bar that really packs a punch.

— Amber Love Bond, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of watch

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Robinson’s parents had confronted him after authorities released a surveillance photo of the suspect and details about the rifle, authorities have said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 July 2026
Better detection and rising clinician awareness probably explain much of the jump, though surveillance data alone cannot rule out changes in incidence or exposure.

— John Drake, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

Definition of surveillance

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Automated services cost money but save you time, handle rechecks and can catch new listings faster.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 May 2025
If teams receive good news during his medical rechecks, there’s still a chance he’s selected on day one of the draft.

— Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2025

Definition of recheck

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Changes in the brain The research team looked at many measures of impact, including questionnaires, clinical assessments and brain scans.

— Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 12 July 2026
Other research pointed in the same direction, and by 2008, Falk and other exercise physiologists were arguing against the status-quo assumption that kids had some major natural deficits in thermoregulation.

— Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 11 July 2026

Definition of research

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Beyond Bart’s Books, downtown Ojai has dozens more unique shops for your perusal.

— Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2026
The language switch has done nothing to lessen its global appeal, as a quick perusal of the YouTube comments suggests, though there are some jokes Jakubović acknowledges would be inscrutable outside Bosnia.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 June 2026

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