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experiment (up)on someone or something to use someone or something as the subject of an experiment. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) Do you think we should experiment upon people? The researchers were experimenting on a new drug that might cure rabies. experiment in something to conduct research or experiments about something. The research group is experimenting in the field of biomechanics. We want to experiment in thermodynamics. experiment with someone or something to try different experiments on someone or something; to use different people or things as key variables in an experiment. They are supposed to be experimenting with new drugs. We no longer experiment with animals. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A thoroughly engaging examination of the effects of such experimentations on humans both ordinary and extraordinary. Unbeknownst to him, a couple of underage teen girls are using his older son for their sexual experimentations, and young Robby is frequenting an Internet chat room, causing much excitement with his use of the word ``poop. By now his experimentations with narrative technique would direct him away from the lyrical modernism of Jean Toomer's Cane (1923) toward the more condensed style of Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time (1924). |
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