peer review
noun
: a process by which something proposed (as for research or publication) is evaluated by a group of experts in the appropriate field
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Between 1995 and 2015, both publications—which have a combined circulation of some eighty thousand Canadian family doctors and pharmacists—regularly ran columns from the Motherisk team without subjecting them to peer review.
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Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
An initial digital forensics analysis conducted by investigators found that Christine Banfield had control over her devices before her death, and those findings were upheld in a peer review of the report.
—Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
That might be because many of the peer reviews were themselves done by AI.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
The paper is submitted and will hopefully go through peer review.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2026
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Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
An initial digital forensics analysis conducted by investigators found that Christine Banfield had control over her devices before her death, and those findings were upheld in a peer review of the report.
—Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
That might be because many of the peer reviews were themselves done by AI.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
The paper is submitted and will hopefully go through peer review.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for peer review
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