guinea pig
Example Sentences
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As he buttoned up a professional baseball uniform for the first time in his life, he understood that he was becoming the guinea pig in an experiment that has the whole industry watching.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
A head teacher has expressed concerns for the "guinea pig year group" who are the first to study 15 new-look GCSEs in Wales.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025
His lead, Pattinson’s Mickey Barnes, is a dopey, instantly lovable voluntary “Expendable,” jettisoned into space to be a human guinea pig who will be pivotal in colonizing a faraway planet.
From Salon • Mar. 7, 2025
Alec spent his teens and early 20s helping out around Erewhon, a fast-tracked corporate education that included partaking in the human guinea pig sample sessions led by his mother.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2024
It may sound like ingratitude, but that is one of the things that I resent here—the attitude that I am a guinea pig.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
