as in test
a procedure or operation carried out to resolve an uncertainty
Benjamin Franklin's famous experiment in which he flew a kite in a thunderstorm to see if lightning and electricity were identical
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Since the release of ChatGPT, in 2022, colleges and universities have been engaged in an experiment to discover whether artificially intelligent chatbots and the liberal-arts tradition can coexist.
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Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
Graff tugs the reader from the earliest experiments in radiation to the young pilots who made an ashy hole of Nagasaki.
—Book Marks
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Ultimately, federal agencies and the OSTP could grant two-year moratoriums on enforcement of AI laws to enable AI experiments on the public, which can be renewed up to four times for a maximum of 10 years.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
This exotic phase had been theoretically proposed for years, but until now it had never been directly observed in any experiment.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
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Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
Graff tugs the reader from the earliest experiments in radiation to the young pilots who made an ashy hole of Nagasaki.
—Book Marks
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Ultimately, federal agencies and the OSTP could grant two-year moratoriums on enforcement of AI laws to enable AI experiments on the public, which can be renewed up to four times for a maximum of 10 years.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
This exotic phase had been theoretically proposed for years, but until now it had never been directly observed in any experiment.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for experiment
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The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people, including current events and the sights and sounds of the United States.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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In a test setting, the fluid enabled a battery pack to be charged from 10% to 80% capacity in under ten minutes.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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Which enterprise strategies will unlock the most value as organizations race to move from experimentation to full-scale adoption?—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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While in orbit, Mission 7 accomplished a range of test and experimentation objectives intended to demonstrate the X-37B’s robust maneuver capability while helping characterize the space domain through the testing of space domain awareness technology experiments.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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