Dry-lab

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To conduct an experiment in a fraudulent way that produces a desirable result, for example by inventing data.

    "What probably happened is that some damn intelligent bureaucrat dry-labbed it."

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"What probably happened is that some damn intelligent bureaucrat dry-labbed it."

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