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Recent Examples of retest
Josh Brown,sean Russo,
CNBC,
8 June 2026
Eddie’s parents reportedly demanded a retest of the samples, but the request was denied.
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Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
29 Apr. 2026
Charlotte Observer,
20 Feb. 2026
When soil contamination still exceeded state benchmarks after initial cleanup, the state sent cleanup workers to remove more dirt and then retest the properties.
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Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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Noun
Instead, consider giving it more room and look to the 200-day at $129 as the line in the sand, though that level is far enough away that a retest there would require a reassessment of the whole trend.
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Josh Brown,sean Russo,
CNBC,
8 June 2026
Eddie’s parents reportedly demanded a retest of the samples, but the request was denied.
—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
29 Apr. 2026
Verb
On Thursday, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said advancements in technology allowed investigators to retest evidence collected from the murder scene for DNA.
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Charlotte Observer,
20 Feb. 2026
When soil contamination still exceeded state benchmarks after initial cleanup, the state sent cleanup workers to remove more dirt and then retest the properties.
—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retest
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After families submit an initial pretest for students, the district manages the weekly testing through mobile clinics that move from campus to campus.
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Every unit starts with a pretest, so teachers don’t waste time.
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Police are investigating after a man was found dead underwater Saturday afternoon in Lauderhill.
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Counterterrorism police in Edinburgh are investigating a series of late-night street attacks that left five men injured.
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In another instance, investigators identified a gray button on a test-taker's shirt as a concealed camera.
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What the gut microbiome test results showed The companies gave very different answers about which microbes were present, even though every sample was identical.
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Getting that kind of evidence is going to require not just sampling more hominins from more species, but taking a risk on sampling that requires cutting deeper into fossil teeth.
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Accelerators based on Qualcomm’s HBC approach are sampling now, with subsequent generations planned on an annual cadence.
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For China’s grueling annual college entrance exam earlier this month – which more than 10 million hopefuls take each year – authorities required screening of all glasses.
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The robot prostate exam Perhaps the single greatest new element in Best and Last is Larry, a humanoid robot voiced by comedian Adam Ray.
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Reznor and Ross resampled and processed the original cue with tonal and textural shifts to mirror the deepening relationship between the two central characters.
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Days later, the city announced that resampling from 24 of the homes that had high lead levels found only two still above the federal action threshold — a drop that the NRDC says is almost impossible in less than two months.
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Simulations let an intelligence test many possibilities before choosing a path.
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The Supreme Court dismissed a case on Thursday about how to consider intelligence tests when evaluating if a person is sufficiently intellectually disabled to be disqualified from the death penalty, effectively sparing a death row inmate in Alabama from execution.
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Learn more about antioxidants and their health effects by exploring credible sources.
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The publication is exploring ways to create content that serves both human readers and AI agents, recognizing that increasingly, the first consumer of information may not be a person at all.
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“Retest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retest. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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