near-market research

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noun

scientific research that, while not linked to the development of a specific product, is likely to be commercially exploitable

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How to use near-market research in a sentence

Have you tried to access the research that your tax dollars finance, almost all of which is kept behind a paywall?
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It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.
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Certainly, she seems to command near-total devotion among her clients.
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Have a look at this telling research from Pew on blasphemy and apostasy laws around the world.
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And Epstein continues to steer money toward universities to advance scientific research.
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The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.
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There was a lathe near the spot where David Arden stood, and shavings and splinters under his feet.
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Madame Ratignolle laid her hand over that of Mrs. Pontellier, which was near her.
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Edmund de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, on account of his near relationship to the house of York, beheaded.
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