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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 Because every bottle of whiskey available at Jack Rose can be ordered, and is priced to be sampled, rather than ogled, the whiskey list at Jack Rose is ever changing. — Don Tse, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 Hakim, a genre chameleon who has performed as a sideman for Adrianne Lenker, made a record with the jazz saxophonist Roy Nathanson, and been sampled by T-Pain, has also claimed minimalist icons Steve Reich and Terry Riley as influences. — Mitch Therieau, Pitchfork, 30 July 2026 While Ramses may continue its operations for a number of months, NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX mission—the name for the extended mission of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which sampled the asteroid Bennu—is set to swoop in after Apophis buzzes Earth. — Andrew Jones, Scientific American, 30 July 2026 By 2014, roughly one-third of the catfish sampled in Lake Memphremagog showed signs of the disease. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 28 July 2026 It was later found that 23% to 37% of those sampled had confirmed melanoma lesions, a type of skin cancer, according to a new study published in Nature. — Dr. Yonathan Daniel, ABC News, 25 July 2026 In a press briefing Monday, FDA officials explained that the test result was from lettuce sampled at the border that was not included in Taylor Farms’ recall. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026 On May 28, Johnson received results finding that the DNA profile sampled from one of Brown’s soda bottles could not be excluded as the contributor of the male blood from the victim’s nightgown, the detective wrote. — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026 Now, in a new study published in the European Heart Journal designed to shed light on the relationship between plastic pollution and the heart, researchers sampled the blood flowing around 61 people’s hearts. — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 16 July 2026

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Although engineers successfully tested the revolutionary reactor, the project was ultimately canceled in 1964 as ballistic missiles emerged as a more practical, and less environmentally catastrophic alternative.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026
Following meetings and auditions over the last couple months, sources say a small group of actors tested after the July 4 holiday.

— Justin Kroll, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026

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