sampling

Example Sentences

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He wasted no time in showing the extent of his decades-long discography by teasing his classic track Praise You before sampling Queen's iconic Don't Stop Me Now.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

He does not rely on anecdote alone but instead builds patterns from a wide sampling of Fourth of July orations.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 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

Three years ago, Nelligan and his colleagues, working from the backyard of a neighbor of Susan Flores, used soil vapor sampling to detect volatile organic compounds they say may be associated with decomposing human remains.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

Then there were all the diseases one is vulnerable to in the woods—giardiasis, eastern equine encephalitis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, schistosomiasis, brucellosis, and shigellosis, to offer but a sampling.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson