sample
Example Sentences
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The county Department of Public Health is conducting water sampling, and the closure will continue until bacterial levels meet health standards.
From Los Angeles Times
In performance, between songs, Mr. Clayton would occasionally trigger samples of archival interviews with legends of Blue Note’s past.
A sampling scheduled for mid-October had to be canceled, so figures dating from August were used instead — concealing any price increases in subsequent months.
From Los Angeles Times
To carry out the study, the ICE-CSIC team selected and carefully characterized asteroid related samples before sending them for detailed chemical analysis.
From Science Daily
Once these nanoparticles are applied to a sample or to the area being examined, the system reads their Raman signal and automatically highlights regions that are more likely to contain tumor tissue.
From Science Daily
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