How to Use field trial in a Sentence

field trial

noun
  • There are also field trials and tests.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 28 Jan. 2026
  • One source is field trials in which behavior can be observed and controlled.
    — Martin Cetron, STAT, 2 May 2023
  • Early lab tests are promising, but field trials have yet to be conducted.
    — Rebecca Albright, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2018
  • Many have already published results from early lab tests and field trials.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2017
  • The field trials lasted 21 days and unfolded in four stages.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • There would be additional challenges to address even if such field trials went well.
    — Mike Wall, Scientific American, 15 July 2019
  • That tweaking was done by Oxitec, which also funded the new field trial.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The university plans to conduct real-world field trials over the coming six months or so.
    — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The first field trials are expected to start later this year, after a risk assessment.
    — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Track and field trials begin on Friday and gymnastics later next week.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
  • 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
  • But Hussain says the group still plans to move forward with field trials before the end of 2020.
    — Jeremy Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 9 June 2020
  • But there is now real momentum and funding to begin work on some of these projects, with field trials being carried out around the world.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Researchers administer the white-nose syndrome vaccine to a bat during a field trial.
    — Tanya Dewey, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2024
  • 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
  • Salaries consume 70% of the budget; spending on lab equipment, field trials and the like accounts for just 2%.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • Nitricity says that Ash Tea increased yields by up to 30% in field trials.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Synthetic pheromones may help hives In field trials, the researchers tested whether adding synthetic pheromone blends could calm the colonies.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • But so far, massive MIMO has only been tested in labs and a few field trials.
    — Amy Nordrum, IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2017
  • But so far, massive MIMO has only been tested in labs and a few field trials.
    — Amy Nordrum, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • The field trials show the potential of the technology and build support across a variety of use cases.
    — Michael De Nil, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • While most endophyte studies are lab or greenhouse based, there have been field trials for multiple crops, including Doty’s work in poplars and corn.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Diagnostics for All, a spin-off of the lab, plans to start field trials in the second quarter of this year of a paper chip that tests for liver damage.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2011
  • That person will be on board as the vessel travels to and from the field trial site, including while the team releases the sodium hydroxide into the ocean.
    — ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Instead, the coach was interested in how the team performed in real-world field trials, which included a mix of moderate and all-out intervals.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 29 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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