How to Use field trial in a Sentence

field trial

noun
  • Chari Hawkins was hoping to grab her spot at the U.S. track and field trials in June.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • If the field trials work well, the new bait might get federal approval in 2020, opening the way for states to approve it.
    Janet McConnaughey, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Salaries consume 70% of the budget; spending on lab equipment, field trials and the like accounts for just 2%.
    The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • The event's move to Southern California that year marks the first time since 2008 that the track and field trials will be held outside Eugene.
    Elliot Njus, OregonLive.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • But so far, massive MIMO has only been tested in labs and a few field trials.
    Amy Nordrum, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2017
  • That tweaking was done by Oxitec, which also funded the new field trial.
    Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 30 Jan. 2020
  • One source is field trials in which behavior can be observed and controlled.
    Martin Cetron, STAT, 2 May 2023
  • The university plans to conduct real-world field trials over the coming six months or so.
    Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Early lab tests are promising, but field trials have yet to be conducted.
    Rebecca Albright, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2018
  • At the field trial, my wife was able to set up her sewing machine on the dining table and work on quilts while also watching the people, horses, and dogs at the breakaway point.
    Mark Chesnut, Field & Stream, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Hayward Field was constructed in 1919 as a football stadium and has held six U.S. Olympic track and field trials.
    Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 25 May 2018
  • Many of these solutions have already proven successful in labs and are beginning field trials in the open ocean.
    Michael Leitch, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Sterile mosquitoes wipe out dengue fever in field trial.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2010
  • By 2017 field trials showed that this rice grew adequately.
    Dominic Glover, The Conversation, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Sando likes to tell a story about a field trial at the University of California, Davis, a few years ago.
    Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Many official obstacles sit in the way of the spread of golden rice, with even approval for field trials difficult to secure.
    Ed Regis, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2020
  • There would be additional challenges to address even if such field trials went well.
    Mike Wall, Scientific American, 15 July 2019
  • The conservation area was closed to the public for the weekend, indicating that the trainer was there to participate in the field trial.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 25 May 2023
  • In June, VerCauteren ran another field trial in Texas, combining the bait boxes with the inflatable snakes, and didn’t find a single dead bird.
    Stephen Ornes, The Atlantic, 15 May 2021
  • Many insist on lengthy field trials and obstruct the approval of seeds that have already been certified for planting elsewhere.
    The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The company claims on its website that their mosquitoes worked effectively in a field trial in Brazil.
    Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Weiner paid the bank to collect, store and maintain semen from specialty hunting and field trial dogs since 1995, according to the complaint.
    Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The company has scaled up the panels to 1.65 square meters each, and is now conducting a larger field trial in Davis, California.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Finnegan was born at field trial judge George Kucsma’s kennel in Hebron, Ohio, ensuring a hunting career would be in the pup’s future.
    D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2019
  • In January 2011 the researchers conducted a field trial to test their strategy.
    Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2012
  • The major aim is to keep raccoons from spreading their strain of the deadly virus to states where it hasn't been found or isn't widespread, said field trial coordinator Jordona Kirby.
    Fox News, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Hunting, hunt test and field trial dogs have very specific needs to achieve optimum performance.
    Brian Lynn, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The institute pumps millions of dollars into lab research and coffee field trials every year.
    Justin Worland/alajuela, Time, 21 June 2018
  • Once field trials were finally ready to start in 2013, anti-GMO activists destroyed the plantings, setting everything back again.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 June 2019
  • The new editorial is a summary and discussion of the field trial data.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2013

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