sampling
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Earlier this year, the EPA announced it would perform a limited soil sampling at 100 destroyed homes across the burn zone in order to verify that contractors had thoroughly mitigated toxic substances.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
D-Wave Quantum: The company has cornered the market for “annealing quantum,” an approach tailored to optimization tasks like logistics and data sampling.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Baby sloths learn which leaves are safe to eat by sampling food directly from her mouth from about the age of two months.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
The inspector-general’s office told MarketWatch that those estimates were based on sampling payments made to beneficiaries in the past two years, though the figures are thought to represent total cumulative underpayments to the beneficiaries.
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
It’ll be mostly EVAs, geological sampling, soil tests, and weekly self-administered medical tests.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
