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laboratory

[lab-ruh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, lab-er-uh-, luh-bor-uh-tuh-ree, -uh-tree] / ˈlæb rəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˈlæb ər ə-, ləˈbɒr ə tə ri, -ə tri /
NOUN
testing room
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The Daily Star says there are "outbreak fears" after the death of a worker at a Siberian plague research laboratory.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The laboratory worker's death was first reported on Friday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The governor of Irkutsk, Igor Kobzev, said earlier in the week that specialists had carried out extensive laboratory analyses of the woman’s body which found no “microorganisms connected to her professional activities.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Some residents in Irkutsk questioned whether the laboratory worker had died of plague at all.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

In showing that many alchemical recipes can indeed be performed in a modern laboratory, these scholars have rendered apparently incomprehensible texts meaningful and reinstated alchemy as a laboratory science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

At Nepal's two forensic laboratories, both in Kathmandu, experts are working to profile samples and build a database on a scale they have never handled before.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Competition promotes the discovery of what nobody sitting in Washington or even in today’s leading AI laboratories knows to look for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The thinking seems to be that if leading laboratories build advanced models less aggressively, they may need fewer accelerators, memory chips, networking components and data centers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Many traditional axion experiments try to convert axions into photons by exposing them to extremely strong magnetic fields inside laboratories.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Here on the western bank was the Thebes he knew, a vast jumble of workshops and laboratories known as the City of the Dead.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw




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