as in sampling
a number of things selected from a group to stand for the whole
she put together a sampler of works in the police procedural genre
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Recent Examples of sampler
That sampler captured the band’s brand of thrash punk in its purest form.
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Daniel Kohn,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2026
Horn was one of the first musicians to buy a Fairlight CMI, the world’s first digital sampler.
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Andy Cush,
Pitchfork,
9 May 2026
On later albums, Mothersbaugh began relying heavily on the Fairlight CMI, an early sampler, and the rest of the members were sidelined.
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Michael Tedder,
SPIN,
5 May 2026
The friendships were fleeting, necessarily occasional, as there were always church newcomers and samplers and people moving away.
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Chang-Rae Lee,
New Yorker,
3 May 2026
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Daniel Kohn,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2026
Horn was one of the first musicians to buy a Fairlight CMI, the world’s first digital sampler.
—
Andy Cush,
Pitchfork,
9 May 2026
On later albums, Mothersbaugh began relying heavily on the Fairlight CMI, an early sampler, and the rest of the members were sidelined.
—
Michael Tedder,
SPIN,
5 May 2026
The friendships were fleeting, necessarily occasional, as there were always church newcomers and samplers and people moving away.
—
Chang-Rae Lee,
New Yorker,
3 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sampler
Noun
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The boat comes with modern amenities like special laboratory refrigerators to store water samples and computer desks to allow continuous measurements of water quality while conducting water quality sampling.
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After landing in the ancient lakebed Jezero Crater in 2021, the rover has been hard at work exploring, sampling, and collecting information to help scientists put the pieces of Mars' history together.
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The boil-water notice was issued out an abundance of caution, the LADWP said, as additional testing is being done and samples collected.
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The ideal is to be able to smell a sample - then buy a prepacked equivalent.
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“Sampler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sampler. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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