lab

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noun (1)

Lab

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noun (2)

Lab

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abbreviation

Labrador

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Noun
These workflows are all customized to the experiment at hand and led by an NGS expert who has both strong in-house capabilities and a track record of collaborating with partners that help solve labs’ biggest challenges. Linda De Jesus, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025 But the dream is to be able to capture the human brain functioning in real-world scenarios instead of in the lab. ArsTechnica, 30 June 2025 Made Locally Kamb started his graduate work in 2022 in the lab of Surya Ganguli, a physicist at Stanford who also has appointments in neurobiology and electrical engineering. Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2025 Venter said there was no evidence to prove that covid-19 had been manipulated in a lab, nor was there any indication the virus had been spreading before December 2019 anywhere outside of China. Arkansas Online, 28 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for lab

Word History

First Known Use

Noun (1)

circa 1868, in the meaning defined above

Noun (2)

1925, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of lab was circa 1868

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“Lab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lab. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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