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The trade association for the nursing-home industry downplayed the report, arguing it was based on a small and out-of-date sample.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
When Stafford obtained the warrant for Perkins’ arrest in November, he also secured a search warrant to collect a sample of her saliva.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
"There are nowhere near enough river sample measurements to quantify inputs to estuaries along the entire Alaskan North Slope."
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026
As a matter of simple arithmetic, that is far too small a sample to rule out my hypothesis if we take Pangram’s other claims at face value.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Drones, I have learned from spending time with Fly—my sample size of one—are prone to exaggeration.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
Vocabulary lists containing sample
Statistics and Probability - Middle School
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Scientific Investigation and Reasoning
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for September 4–September 10, 2021
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