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sampled

verb

past tense of sample

as in tested

to put (something) to a test sampled the soup to see if it tasted good

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Recent Examples of sampled The judge said the parties now must propose a schedule for addressing the remaining claims, which involve allegations that various artists directly sampled Steely & Clevie’s sound recordings. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2026 Many were cruise obsessives who had sampled all the high-end lines and determined that Explora was the best of the bunch––in part for its laid-back, let-your-hair-down approach to luxury. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026 According to one study that sampled large companies, among them BlackRock and Google, these corporations increased their number of Black employees by somewhere between 33 and 75 percent from 2020 to 2024. — Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026 The chemistry of the corals revealed that El Niño events from the past 40 years were stronger than at any other time sampled in the past millennium. — Julia Cole, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026 For mills, the platform logs article selections, price discussions and keeps track of what a client has sampled—costly investment by mills that is often overlooked by brands. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 24 Aug. 2026 Under a collection of string lights, the riverine reveller sampled the Oysters Champagne, topped with shishito mignonette, cucumber, and shiso. — Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026 One unusual bowel movement may reflect stress, a dietary change or something questionable your dog sampled off the sidewalk. — Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026 In one series of experiments, Cao and his team processed 21 million cells, sampled from 14 tissues or organs in about 50 male and female mice at five life stages, and built a data set of gene expression for each cell. — Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026

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Though Rosado tested positive for a small amount of meth and had been going up to 90 mph, the evidence indicated that Rosado had fallen asleep and that his car drifted off the freeway before hitting a guardrail, Cherney said.

— Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026
Hobaiter and Dominy support this idea with half a dozen claims that could, in principle, be tested, lending some scientific credence to the idea that complex human speech was selected for in the warm glow of a crackling campfire.

— Mike McRae September 02, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026

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