DNA test
noun
: a test that examines DNA and that is used to identify someone or to show that people are relatives
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Earlier this month an owner shared how a DNA test connected two siblings born years apart.
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
The doctor suspected a serious, possibly genetic condition and recommended whole genome sequencing — the most comprehensive DNA test available.
—Jordan Greene, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
But now the milkman’s kid can buy a DNA test from Target.
—Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
In 2019, Hardin pleaded guilty and was sentenced to concurrent 25-year prison terms on two charges after a DNA test matched him to the unsolved rape of an elementary school teacher in 1997 in Rogers.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Aug. 2025
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
The doctor suspected a serious, possibly genetic condition and recommended whole genome sequencing — the most comprehensive DNA test available.
—Jordan Greene, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
But now the milkman’s kid can buy a DNA test from Target.
—Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
In 2019, Hardin pleaded guilty and was sentenced to concurrent 25-year prison terms on two charges after a DNA test matched him to the unsolved rape of an elementary school teacher in 1997 in Rogers.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Aug. 2025
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“DNA test.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/DNA%20test. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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