guinea pig
Example Sentences
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"I wouldn't want to be the first guinea pig," as "it's not so easy to have everything just smooth" like Apple has managed to do with its laptops.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
His three-year-old guinea pig, Remington, had surgery for a bladder stone.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
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
At the center of the story is the cuy, a guinea pig eaten in Andean South America, though in this telling they’re also used in a version of bullfighting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2025
“You’ve already used her as a guinea pig for that correspondence course you took. Why not let her alone. Let Gonzalez retire her.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
