Sampled
/ˈsæmpəld/
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- (adj.) Describing data or evidence drawn from a subset of a larger population for analysis or testing in a legal context.
The court relied on the sampled documents to determine the prevalence of the contractual breaches.
- (v.) Past tense of sample, meaning to select or take a representative part of something for inspection or trial, often used in forensic or evidentiary analysis.
The expert witness sampled the substances found at the crime scene for laboratory testing.
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As a past tense verb, 'sampled' refers to the act of selecting representative portions, critical in evidence gathering; as an adjective, it describes data or evidence derived from such selection.
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