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trial run

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Definition of trial run

as in test-drive

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Recent Examples of trial run The first trial run for the AI tool also comes as the FAA has been grappling with a decades-long shortage of air traffic controllers after President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 controllers in 1981. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2026 The club granted him a trial run to cover innings and to see if his relief success could translate. — Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2026 The announcement comes after 7 Brew's 96-store trial run this past spring in Arkansas, where both the grocery giant and the coffee chain are headquartered. — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026 This could have been a trial run for a more permanent handoff of power. — Julian G. Waller, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for trial run

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The California Roadkill Observation System includes more than 234,000 observations collected by state agencies, wildlife biologists, researchers and members of the public.

— Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 11 Nov. 2026
Scientists can compare the early universe scenario modeled in Lumina with observations from telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2026

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The ticket must have been purchased from June 28, 2020, to July 1, 2024, on the park’s official website, and the billing address used during checkout must have a California ZIP Code.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2026
Small donations at the checkout counter can make a big difference for local banks and pantries, while Wegmans' food donation programs help provide millions of nutritious meals to families in need.

— Mary Calvi, CBS News, 12 Nov. 2026

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An acceptable component rejected unnecessarily may trigger reinspection, delay production or consume an engineer’s attention.

— Rajesh Iyengar, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026
The problem was discovered during routine import reinspection testing, when a sample tested positive for listeria monocytogenes, according to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.

— Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2026

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In it, Reed questions American policy, surveillance, and patriotism across a landscape that juxtaposes scenes of Black youth playing with closing shots of the singer’s silhouette backdropped by flames.

— Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2026
Earlier that morning, surveillance footage shows someone taking the case out of a car’s open trunk and laying it along the curb, then picking it up and turning it perpendicular to the curb.

— Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026

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Those platforms have mainly served as research aircraft or high-altitude pseudo-satellites.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2026
In 2025, Google’s Craig Gidney published research suggesting RSA-2048 could theoretically be factored with fewer than one million noisy physical qubits under specific engineering assumptions, a dramatic reduction from previous estimates.

— Peter Smulovics, Forbes.com, 12 Nov. 2026

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