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field study

British  

noun

  1. (often plural) a research project carried out in the field See field

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Hinckley said more field study would be required to figure out what purpose the fangs might serve, but that their larger size in males suggests they could have some role in sexual selection.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

Joe McClure, Iowa Soybean Association research director, said the Stanford study largely confirms his organization’s research, though he thought the university researchers should do field study to verify their satellite-based analysis.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2023

Bonell and her team recently conducted the first field study probing the physiological impacts of heat stress on mother and fetus, published in December 2022.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 27, 2023

In what investigators say is the first field study to examine how this phenomenon works and its ecological impacts, they found that the stealthy flames draw nourishment from a surprising subterranean source.

From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2023

On the other hand, we need a more careful and extended field study of these variations.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

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