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noun

ˈsam-pliŋ

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as in sample

a number of things selected from a group to stand for the whole a sampling of shoppers said they preferred fresh orange juice over frozen

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verb

present participle of sample

as in testing

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

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To celebrate this status, the city hosts an annual summer festival that’s more than a sampling of strawberry recipes. — Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 30 July 2026 Dayton, Ohio, Fort Worth, Texas, and Tucson, Arizona, are just a sampling of the cities that have filed lawsuits against the military claiming PFAS threatens their water sources. — Austin Fast, USA Today, 26 July 2026

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After sampling pickle ice cream or pickle beer on the bridge, visitors could step into Market Square and swap jars and spears for engines and steel. — Gabby Sartori, USA Today, 20 July 2026 The spacecraft's optics had also been affected by dust from sampling Ryugu. — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 19 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for sampling

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Often, there is only capacity to check a sample of invoices; the rest are paid automatically, leaving the company vulnerable to over-spending and outright fraud.

— David Prosser, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
By 2007, it was discovered that DNA samples had not been collected, leading to exhumation of the body to obtain the sample.

— Marc Anthony Lopez, ABC News, 29 July 2026

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Anthropic said a misconfiguration allowed Claude models to reach the internet from testing environments that were supposed to be isolated, leading to unauthorized access to three organizations’ systems.

— Reuters, NBC news, 31 July 2026
Engineers plan to integrate the system with a lunar rover before testing it on Earth and later demonstrating it on the Moon.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026

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