experimentation
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Origin of experimentation
First recorded in 1665–75; experiment + -ation
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The research was partially funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Agricultural Experimentation Station at UCR.
From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2024
To facilitate this, the Air Force asked Congress for $50 million in its fiscal year 2024 budget to underwrite what it ominously enough calls Project VENOM, or “Viper Experimentation and Next-generation Operations Model.”
From Salon • Feb. 24, 2024
Experimentation with this kind of technology has become increasingly common in certain sections of the music industry.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2023
Experimentation wasn’t ancillary but integral to his idea of a flourishing theater.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2023
Experimentation thus required a deeply problematic balancing act between Platonic idealism and a crude empiricism.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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