test subject

Example Sentences

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What better test subject than this very column?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

When another rooster was present, but blocked from view by a mirror, the test subject still tended to stay silent.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023

A study of 225 clinical trials performed between 2015 and 2017 found that it cost pharmaceutical companies an average of more than $40,000, and as much as $75,000, for each test subject completing a trial.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2023

Anti-Doping Agency, who identified the issue and also volunteered to be a test subject for his own study.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2022

I get it: she doesn’t want to be anyone’s test subject, and I shouldn’t have done what I did.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone