observational
Example Sentences
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To examine these outcomes, researchers from the University of Oxford reviewed clinical trials and observational studies involving adults who used medications approved for weight loss.
From Science Daily
Because this was an observational study, it cannot prove that preservatives directly cause cancer.
From Science Daily
“How about some observational drawings of one of the animals? It’ll count as class credit for today. By tomorrow I’m sure everything will be straightened out.”
From Literature
Eddie Izzard, the wry, gender-fluid British comedian who came to attention with a stream of observational drollery that picked away at common sense, takes on the whole teeming tragedy.
From Los Angeles Times
Such observational research alone doesn’t prove that artificial sweeteners cause health problems.
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