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The researchers had been experimenting with especially small magnetic disks, shrinking them from several micrometers down to just a few hundred nanometers.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

Knowing this, Corps biologists had been experimenting with draining a reservoir known as Fall Creek until it nearly replicated the original river channel.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2023

He had been experimenting with acrylic paint, which is easy to mix and fast-drying, to create striking designs.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2023

But he had been experimenting with what would soon come to be called fusion even before then.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2017

Though it had been experimenting with other philosophies for several centuries, when threatened with schism it turned orthodox once again.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife