evaluation
Americannoun
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evaluations
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an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
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(especially in medicine) a diagnosis or diagnostic study of a physical or mental condition.
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Etymology
Origin of evaluation
From the French word évaluation, dating back to 1745–55. See e- 1, valuation
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Explanation
An evaluation is an appraisal of something to determine its worth or fitness. For example, before you start an exercise program, get a medical evaluation, to make sure you're able to handle the activity. At the heart of the noun evaluation is the root word value, which means "worth." So an evaluation is an examination to find the worth of something. We do this every day — maybe making an evaluation of the prices in a store to decide whether or not to shop there. We might get an appraisal of our property, which is an evaluation to determine its worth in preparation for taking out a mortgage. Evaluation is vital in planning our lives.
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Kushner said the results support continued development of alenglipron as an obesity treatment and further evaluation of its effectiveness in an upcoming phase III trial.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
His current defense team has requested a mental health evaluation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
"To some degree, our evaluation design choices and specific configurations enabled the behaviour," it said, while noting its unexpected "signs of novel, potentially deceptive behaviours".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Both Anthropic and OpenAI said the incidents point to a need for stronger standards around the evaluation systems used to test AI models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Much to Bobby’s consternation, Regina insisted that he have a psychological evaluation to determine whether something could or should be done to temper his relentless preoccupation with the game.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Upcoming evaluations will check the wiring harness connections required to integrate payloads.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Before AI models are released to the public, they are put to the test in a series of internal and external evaluations.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
On Thursday, Anthropic reported a similar mishap whereby a setup error allowed its Claude models to reach the open internet during safety evaluations and compromise the infrastructure of three real-world organizations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
It reviewed thousands of evaluations where Claude could have accessed the internet from within or while interacting with third parties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The younger girls have their first evaluations coming up at the end of the month.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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