How to Use fieldwork in a Sentence
fieldwork
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By the end of the fieldwork, that figure had dropped to a third.
— Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2023 -
Thomas, too, has fieldwork planned in the far north this year.
— Kristen Pope, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2020 -
The lessons come quickly on our first day of fieldwork.
— Thayer Walker, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2016 -
The team plans to begin that fieldwork within the next year.
— Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2018 -
This type of fieldwork is a bit like that on a much longer timescale and over a much larger area.
— Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 11 July 2018 -
Five years of fieldwork in Manchuria formed the basis of her thesis.
— Naï Zakharia, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023 -
The poll notes that about two-thirds of its fieldwork was done before the June 27 debate between Biden and Trump.
— Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 July 2024 -
But fieldwork has been complicated by the fact the river sits in the middle of a war zone.
— Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 9 June 2023 -
The Seville team plans to conduct more fieldwork to confirm its findings.
— David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022 -
At Howard, she was drawn to the idea of spending long periods of time in nature for fieldwork.
— Erin Berger, Outside Online, 23 Jan. 2022 -
The other problem is funding the fieldwork to discover the reservoir host of a new virus after the horse is out of the barn.
— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022 -
After the day of fieldwork in Glacier, the men packed up their gear and started slipping and sliding their way back down the snowfield.
— Kylie Mohr, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2022 -
By the end of our fieldwork, only ten percent of Tunisians had a positive view of the United States.
— Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2023 -
The fieldwork is slated to begin next week, researchers said.
— NBC News, 5 Jan. 2022 -
Dating shows have guests who are meeting in person again, and the latest podcasts are heavy on the fieldwork.
— Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022 -
The agency expects the fieldwork to start in late spring next year, with the main five-year construction phase expected to start by 2023.
— Pan Pylas, Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020 -
Linnaeus made many drawings as part of his fieldwork and the Lapland journal is full of them.
— James Prosek, New York Times, 16 May 2017 -
In that event, further fieldwork in Urabá would be unlikely.
— Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 26 Apr. 2018 -
In the field On a June afternoon, Mr. Manson heads out to conduct fieldwork while his boss writes the grant proposal.
— Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023 -
After a summer of fieldwork in the frigid north, Barker packed his plastic bags containing the wood and began the long trip south.
— Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2022 -
But collecting the snow samples would require a month of fieldwork, and Zatko had no funding to cover the costs.
— Jeffrey Brainard, Science | AAAS, 26 Mar. 2018 -
In casting the film, Caballero sought to bring in talent that had close proximity to fieldwork.
— Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023 -
In the first half of this hybrid seminar-studio, students conduct fieldwork around the city.
— Richard Fadok, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024 -
These mash-ups, where the whales were blending both old and new melodies, were so rare that the team had only recorded five in over 20 years of fieldwork—and one was too poor in quality to use.
— Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 24 July 2017 -
The book draws from early drafts, written in the 1970s, not long after McCormick had completed his fieldwork.
— Dwight Garner, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023 -
Carlos Soberanes González, 38, who co-leads the fieldwork with Rodríguez, returned from a final net check.
— National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2018 -
If money is secured, the lab or fieldwork begins and the team documents their findings.
— Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2021 -
That’s what these three scientists have had to figure out this year, as the global pandemic has kept them from their fieldwork.
— Miriah Kelly, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2020 -
None of them is currently doing fieldwork in Indonesia, and all are based abroad.
— Bydyna Rochmyaningsih, science.org, 7 Oct. 2022 -
Many parasitologists have spent their careers amassing private collections from their fieldwork, bequeathing them to the Manter Lab upon their deaths.
— Hannah Richter, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
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