lab

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noun (1)

Lab

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noun (2)

Lab

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abbreviation

Labrador

Examples of lab in a Sentence

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Noun
An early job as a lab technician was interrupted by five years of compulsory military service. Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 Now, for the first time, researchers have watched the opening choreography of this microscopic dance by inducing endosymbiosis in the lab. Molly Herring, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2025 But the idea that the virus might have originated in a lab never went away. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2025 In 2022, dozens of lab monkeys escaped after a truck carrying 100 of the animals crashed in Pennsylvania. Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for lab 

Word History

First Known Use

Noun (1)

circa 1868, in the meaning defined above

Noun (2)

1925, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of lab was circa 1868

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“Lab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lab. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

Kids Definition

lab

noun

Medical Definition

lab

noun

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