I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bold experiment
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Making a film from the book was a bold experiment, and it worked.
carry out an experiment
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Many schools need better facilities for carrying out scientific experiments.
carry out an experiment
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Many schools need better facilities for carrying out scientific experiments.
conduct a test/experiment
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Investigators will be conducting tests to determine how the man died.
controlled experiment
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a controlled experiment to determine the effects of light on plant growth
devise an experiment/test
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He devised a series of experiments to test his theory.
experiment with drugs (= try taking drugs )
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She admitted that she had experimented with drugs.
laboratory tests/experiments/studies
perform an experiment/study etc
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Part of the Chemistry exam involves performing an experiment.
table-top experiment
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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However, ten years later one of Marconi's earliest experiments took place there.
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In early experiments I actually used Guinness in the dough but it is too costly.
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The early fusion experiments looked as if they were making great strides toward the desired goal.
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Early subjects of time study were the locomotive tires Taylor had used in his earliest metal-cutting experiments .
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The earlier experiments show that the top and bottom halves are not equally sensitive.
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An early experiment in 1963 using explosives had not been a success, and in 1981 the geophysicists turned to Vibroseis.
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While the idea of such interactions could be inferred from earlier experiments , here the result was much more dramatic and clear-cut.
recent
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A recent beautiful experiment by Aspect and his collaborators adds convincing confirmation of quantum mechanics rather than local reality.
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The inference had been widely accepted, until a more recent experiment .
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But recent experiments have called that finding, and much else, into question.
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However, recent basin development experiments have suggested that observed stratigraphic effects could be a normal consequence of basin development.
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Whereas swallowed saliva contains bicarbonate, recent experiments have also demonstrated alkali secretion from the mammalian oesophagus.
scientific
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Chewing gives psychological satisfaction, and even in scientific experiments the chewing of gum has been found to help reduce tension.
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Explain to the class that they are going to conduct a scientific experiment using only a strip of paper.
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One day, I promise myself, I will make a scientific experiment .
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When Challenger called by this morning, he described a scientific experiment to me of a very similar sort.
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This has been shown in several scientific experiments which invariably indicate that overweight people eat more quickly than slim people.
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With his men properly nourished, Cook had all hands available to carry out scientific experiments and explorations.
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Additionally, few primary schools have the equipment or facilities to carry out scientific experiments as the syllabus suggests.
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The three Skylab crews spent a combined time of over 3000 hours conducting scientific experiments in Earth orbit.
simple
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We may conclude that he never had recourse to this simple experiment .
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Putting a chameleon on a mirror seemed a simple enough experiment that I thought that even a writer could perform it.
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Experiments with water Older preschoolers will enjoy these simple experiments , which will need your supervision and explanation.
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This simple experiment was not undoing the clock; it was undoing civilization.
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They did the simple experiment and of course found that he was not!
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What initially sounded like a simple experiment in fact required a great deal of effort.
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The use of these routes can be demonstrated in simple laboratory experiments which measure the time taken to start pronouncing single words.
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Teachers are shown how to carry out many simple experiments .
■ NOUN
laboratory
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The processes themselves A major complication, however, is that the environment can rarely be treated as in a laboratory experiment .
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Conventional psychology's principal methodological demand is for the kind of objectivity promised by the laboratory experiment .
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We revealed that monkeys from Longleat and Woburn safari parks have been sold for laboratory experiments .
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This section looks briefly at some of the basic ideas and illustrates them with the results of some laboratory experiments .
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The laboratory experiment is an obvious case of control, since a complete situation is created by and for the observer.
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It has to incorporate a wide range of factors and develop methods of investigation other than laboratory experiments .
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Studies of turbulent flows centre on laboratory experiments .
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The use of these routes can be demonstrated in simple laboratory experiments which measure the time taken to start pronouncing single words.
■ VERB
begin
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He called meetings to solicit their views and thus began his own experiments with what was effectively community architecture.
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But Robichaux is ready to begin the experiments with local food sources.
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And he began experiments in which half the belts conformed to existing practice, while half were made three times heavier.
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The salt crystals spontaneously began to change to fern shapes whenever the experiment began.
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More recently, the college has begun to experiment with products whose design and manufacture the students carry out over several semesters.
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It was on the last day of 1988 that he began the experiments whose data were to appear in the published paper.
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I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment .
carry
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We could, I suppose, have carried out such an experiment without the drastic consequences the Lieutenant has suggested.
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These include the deployment and retrieval of a NASA-owned spacecraft called Spartan, which carries a half-dozen experiments .
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The data will be analysed and a decision made as to whether to carry out a similar experiment during the busy summer months.
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With his men properly nourished, Cook had all hands available to carry out scientific experiments and explorations.
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Leading voice: Town Crier Alan Booth beat 75 schoolchildren when they carried out an experiment on shouting.
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The alchemist would burn incense and douse himself in specially prepared perfumes before carrying out his experiments .
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One approach is to carry out experiments with a digitizing table in order to determine empirically an appropriate distribution for digitizing errors.
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There is a chance to carry out your own experiments , a steam railway, and a special laboratory for young people.
conduct
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Students worked from textbooks which explain how to conduct the experiment and the sorts of results one would expect to get.
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Explain to the class that they are going to conduct a scientific experiment using only a strip of paper.
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But she showed no particular desire to conduct the experiments herself.
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They have been conducting a series of experiments and observations on the topic of nutrition.
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The three Skylab crews spent a combined time of over 3000 hours conducting scientific experiments in Earth orbit.
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They conduct flight pattern experiments with paper airplanes in science laboratories with the rest of the student body.
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The aim of the present research is to develop this framework by deriving testable propositions and conducting appropriate experiments .
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In my opinion, Don Quixote was conducting an experiment .
demonstrate
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This has been demonstrated by experiments with captive starlings, using the technique of displacing the sun's image with mirrors.
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The use of these routes can be demonstrated in simple laboratory experiments which measure the time taken to start pronouncing single words.
describe
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I describe experiments making use of this criterion in the following chapter.
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He was worried that he would have to get up and describe an experiment that no one had reproduced.
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In the next chapter, we describe a series of experiments designed to explore the extent of this problem.
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When Challenger called by this morning, he described a scientific experiment to me of a very similar sort.
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So now we should describe the actual experiments in more detail.
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Perhaps it was a mistake to describe both sets of experiments in one single account.
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Creating a living wonder at the scale of Bio2 could only be described as an experiment in sustained chaos.
design
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The craft of glass blowing is vital to science, especially when researchers design experiments for which no containers are available.
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We design and perform an experiment , or make observations, according to a preformed set of ideas or concepts in our mind.
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We therefore set out to design an experiment with a younger, more appropriately matched control population.
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And biologists at universities are wary of spending years designing an experiment that may be postponed or lost in space.
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You will be asked to design experiments and be given other problems to solve.
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The major concern in designing an experiment to meet the criteria given above was to avoid obtaining ceiling effects.
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It designs its own experiments to confirm what mere observation might suggest.
perform
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Originally this means of disposal was performed as an experiment to assess what happened to the radioactive material.
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In other words, Heisenberg pointed out that bodies, not detached minds, perform experiments .
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Cairns-Smith invites us to perform the following experiment .
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We will perform the experiment as before, but this time in pitch darkness.
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We design and perform an experiment , or make observations, according to a preformed set of ideas or concepts in our mind.
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I merely want you to perform an experiment .
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She performs unnatural experiments on prisoners in the concentration camps.
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Contrary to the popular myth, Galileo seems to have performed few experiments in mechanics.
repeat
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A researcher reports a particular result, and to verify it other scientists repeat the same experiment in their own labs.
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That evening I repeat the experiment with a little lamb.
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She repeated the experiment several times.
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We repeat the experiment over and over.
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We repeated the experiments with a precursor for protein and found that an increase in protein synthesis occurred also.
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Still, sooner or later, some one will have to repeat the experiment .
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But intra-regional conflict destroyed this initiative and made Moscow reluctant to repeat this kind of experiment .
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I repeated the experiment with atoms, and then with whole molecules.
set
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The game begins with an animated sequence showing the Baron stomping around his laboratory, setting up the experiment .
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And they don't often have time to set up experiments .
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These factors will be taken one at a time, and the scientist will set up experiments to test them.
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If this sounds cynical, it is not difficult to set up a simple experiment .
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It is both wasteful and irresponsible to set experiments in motion and omit to record and analyse what happens.
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This is relevant in possibly saving experimenters some time in setting up experiments .
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All seemed set for an experiment in unity.
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He bought some palladium and set up an experiment .
show
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How great the effect of the interfaces may be is shown by a famous experiment of Professor Orowan's with mica.
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This has been shown in several scientific experiments which invariably indicate that overweight people eat more quickly than slim people.
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This is shown by experiments with humanity's nearest living relative, the chimpanzee.
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The same result showed up in rural experiments .
test
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The hypothesis can therefore be tested by clock-shifting experiments .
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I have tested this by experiment .
try
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Second, we can try modern experiments .
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Doubters should try their own experiment .
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If you are really desperate you can use ordinary brown gummed paper tape as hinges but do try and experiment first.
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Whenever you get stuck feeling you have no time, try that little thought experiment .
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How well do you know your own Faces? Try this experiment .
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Here were two great people who have both tried the experiment of Communism in the hope of modernization.
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If you try this linguistic experiment some groups object, you try out that, some other groups object.
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Some, like Faraday, were highly sceptical but prepared to try an experiment or two.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
run a check/test/experiment etc
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I also ran a check on my own records, I should add.
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It had been switched off after two senior doctors had twice run tests on the patient before declaring him dead.
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There is no incentive to run tests and analyse the results.
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They ran tests and took x-rays, then I was called in to hear the results.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In one experiment , the men were not allowed to sleep and then were tested on how well they were able to concentrate.
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The elderly people were taught meditation in the 12-week experiment .
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The Institute plans to conduct no further experiments on monkeys.
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They are doing experiments to learn more about the affects of alcohol on the brain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All three of the experiments you did are related to the center of gravity in your body.
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Faced with such a question the theorist has to repair to a mental laboratory where he conducts thought experiments.
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In the classical conditioning experiment , the two stimuli were presented simultaneously.
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In three other experiments fluid transport in the jejunum was nil.
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Laboratory experiments have proven that unfamiliar surroundings and a change in daily schedule can lead to sleep problems.
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The experiment has not been done, and it is hard to imagine its getting a grant.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
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The group claims more than 150 monkeys like this have been experimented on at Oxford University.
■ NOUN
drug
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This must be what people tell themselves when they start experimenting with drugs .
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He began experimenting with drugs when he was 13.
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He was just seventeen when he began experimenting with drugs , shooting heroin into his arm.
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He began experimenting with different drugs and drank excessively.
idea
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The Weather Department is always experimenting with new ideas .
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Ronald Reagan is the only modern presidential candidate to experiment with that idea , selecting Pennsylvania Sen.
ways
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Ideal conditions then saw steady progress and plenty of time to experiment with different ways of getting rid of straw.
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He spread the word to his fellow monks, who experimented with other ways to consume the berries.
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Take some time to read around the subject of stress, and to experiment with new ways of coping.
■ VERB
try
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Record a backing tape with this chord and try experimenting with the mode.
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He tried experimenting with various catalysts at these higher temperatures, again without results.
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Use styling products that are designed to add volume and try experimenting with heated rollers to add body and waves.
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But why not try experimenting with a contrasting thread?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another possibility that I have experimented with once or twice is creating a monogram in flowers.
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At fifteen he began to experiment with various water turbines.
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Considerable work has also been undertaken to develop new blends using wool and experimenting with new man made fibres and dyestuffs.
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He also experimented with photography, and did significant early work with X-rays from 1896, and with radio waves from 1897.
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Ronald Reagan is the only modern presidential candidate to experiment with that idea, selecting Pennsylvania Sen.
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She had black kinky hair that she experimented with a lot.
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She was experimenting with a risotto when Ron Paget appeared at the door.
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Want to experiment with digital images?