in the laboratory

ADJECTIVE

busy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

active unavailable working

STRONG

buried employed engaged engrossed hustling occupied overloaded persevering slaving snowed swamped

WEAK

already taken assiduous at it diligent having a full plate having enough on one's plate having fish to fry having many irons in the fire in a meeting in conference in someone else's possession in the field industrious on assignment on duty on the go tied-up up to one's ears with a customer

Antonyms

STRONGEST

idle

STRONG

inactive unoccupied

WEAK

lazy quiet unbusy unemployed unengaged

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in the laboratory

Detecting those signatures in nature would help confirm that the pressure driven leakage observed in the laboratory is occurring throughout the deep ocean.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

So scientists took millions of Katie's own T cells and genetically modified them in the laboratory.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

It was used in a programme which involves keeping living human brain tissue alive for study in the laboratory.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

Elsewhere on campus, Sarah Jachim, Ph.D., -- who was also completing graduate research at the time -- was studying aging and senescent cells in the laboratory of Nathan LeBrasseur, Ph.D.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026

Doc was sitting in the laboratory with Richard Frost.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

in the laboratory

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