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Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 Nov. 2023
The company is currently working on a handful of experiments.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
In experiments, the scientists had Ironstone examine data from Niterói’s civil defense department.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2023
Or, make your go-to sauce plus an exciting experiment.
—Aleksandra Crapanzano / Photographs By F. Martin Ramin/the Wall Street Journal, Food Styling By Kim Ramin , WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
Dias' team apparently used a non-standard method for calculating the background noise in a key experiment and didn't include the details of how this was done in the paper.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
Otherwise, how will the James Harden experiment work?
—Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
One experiment, for example, focused on participants' completion of word puzzles after being shown images designed to elicit specific emotional responses.
—Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2023
Lench said the most interesting outcome came from the first experiment, which measured the number of word puzzles participants could solve in different states of emotion.
—Katie Mogg, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
Georgia Day, Vogue, 14 Nov. 2023
Most celebrities — even the ones who experiment with the wildest colors and edgiest cuts — have a default hairstyle.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 13 Nov. 2023
Although faux freckles are nothing new in beauty circles–nor indeed for Bieber—experimenting with them in a season other than summer felt fresh and unexpected.
—Georgia Day, Glamour, 13 Nov. 2023
Tequila Ocho Blanco Ocho was among the first tequila brands to experiment with terroir on a large scale.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2023
Shields isn’t the only one experimenting with the ingredient.
—New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
Just a bunch of friends experimenting with artmaking, collage, and sharing their love of music.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
Chip companies large and small are experimenting with slices of synthetic diamond, pieces of ultrapure glass or even an obscure material only recently synthesized in quantities sufficient to test its properties.
—Christopher Mims, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2023
Corvo has experimented with other newsmagazines during his time at NBC News.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
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Word History
Noun
Middle English, "testing, proof, remedy," borrowed from Anglo-French esperiment, borrowed from Latin experīmentum "testing, experience, proof," from experīrī "to put to the test, attempt, have experience of, undergo" + -mentum -ment — more at experience entry 1
Verb
verbal derivative of experiment entry 1
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1787, in the meaning defined above
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“Experiment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/experiment. Accessed 28 Nov. 2023.
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