The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Mr. Crowe, retaining a trace of his Hermann Göring from “Nuremberg,” is transparently deceitful to everyone but his besotted student, who agrees to be one of Murray’s guinea pigs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Some players are frustrated as they feel they have become guinea pigs on the global stage.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
“I feel like we’re being guinea pigs when we don’t want to be.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
For now, Unitree’s humanoid robots find their main uses in education and entertainment, or they serve as guinea pigs in the labs of robotics researchers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
What selective barrier let those crops through but screened out llamas and guinea pigs?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
