Crossword-Solution: SAMPLINGS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

This may be answered on the principle that the same degree of excellence should be aimed at in each of a series of samplings.

There was a great deal of mysterious consultation between Miss Francis and her assistants, punctuated by ritualistic samplings of the vegetation and soil.

The pollsters said that their samplings had shown a strong leaning toward the President at first, but that eight weeks of campaigning had started a switch toward Cannon, and that the movement seemed to be accelerating.

The inspectors were required to open the hogshead, extract and carefully examine two samplings; all trash and unsound tobacco was to be burned in the warehouse kiln in the presence and with the consent of the owner.

Presumably the differences in figures obtained at different samplings result chiefly from the margin of error in the data, although it is true that there is rapid change in the actual number of opossums.