field trial
noun
1
: a trial of sporting dogs in actual performance
2
: a trial of a new product in actual situations for which it is intended
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The company is conducting field trials in Texas, and plans to drill its first full size geothermal boreholes by 2028.
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Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
The news made the front page of the Times, albeit below the fold (right next to a story about the launch of the field trials for Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine).
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 9 July 2025
In field trials where two females were placed on an empty web, researchers saw one fight (7%) where the aggressor ended up killing and wrapping the other spider in silk.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 11 July 2025
Panacea Biotech in India licensed the same NIH materials and started a large-scale vaccine field trial in 2024.
—Stephen J. Thomas, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
The news made the front page of the Times, albeit below the fold (right next to a story about the launch of the field trials for Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine).
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 9 July 2025
In field trials where two females were placed on an empty web, researchers saw one fight (7%) where the aggressor ended up killing and wrapping the other spider in silk.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 11 July 2025
Panacea Biotech in India licensed the same NIH materials and started a large-scale vaccine field trial in 2024.
—Stephen J. Thomas, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Field trial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/field%20trial. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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