sampling
Example Sentences
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A recent sampling: “Yesterday afternoon, someone pounded on my front door.”
From Seattle Times
The new speaker has been sampling various backdrops for his public appearances in the Capitol.
From Washington Post
In the lawsuit, the party tried unsuccessfully to postpone the certification of election results in Maricopa County and seek a new audit of a sampling of ballots.
From Seattle Times
The polling has a sampling error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.
From Washington Times
The full data set indicates this cluster was not merely a sampling bias, however, according to Crits-Cristoph.
From Scientific American
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