How to Use confirmatory in a Sentence

confirmatory

adjective

• Such is the case with HIV tests, which require a confirmatory test to accurately diagnose the virus.
  — Elizabeth Boskey, Verywell Health, 20 July 2023
• Although a dozen states are capable of testing for coronavirus infection, confirmatory tests must still be done by the C.D.C., a process that can take days.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• Even when drug sponsors manage to complete confirmatory trials, the results can remain up for grabs.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• Something that could quickly see if a sample is from a big cat species, and therefore might be regulated, so that it could then be sent for confirmatory forensic testing.
  — Rachel Crowell, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
• Some confirmatory work also could take place through other missions or even someday from analysis of Mars samples brought back to Earth.
  — Carmen Drahl, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2023
• Alas for us all, confirmatory untruths are so much more comforting.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 27 Oct. 2019
• The person was tested late last week, with confirmatory testing taking place at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the weekend.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 1 Apr. 2024
• But the company’s confirmatory study has some serious flaws, according to the FDA, putting its future in jeopardy.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 4 Oct. 2023
• Consumers who did not get a second, confirmatory test after testing positive with a recalled Ellume test should be aware their test result could have been wrong, the company said.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
• Because Krabbe newborn screening has a high rate of false positives, samples with abnormal results will be sent to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for confirmatory tests.
  — Patricia Callahan, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• If positive, then a confirmatory Western blot test should be performed.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2022
• Larger confirmatory trials that could lead to marketing approval are scheduled to begin next year.
  — Elie Dolgin, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
• Lunak said new subscribers receive a confirmatory e-mail.
  — Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Three of the studies were edited, either through confirmatory experimentation or replacing the wrong images with the correct ones, and were published on the preprint server, bioRxiv.
  — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2023
• Despite the existing tests for diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers, few patients in the U.S. have been tested with these confirmatory tests because of cost and access restrictions.
  — Howard M. Fillit, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2019
• The continued approval of the drug is contingent upon a confirmatory trial of the drug combinations’ benefits.
  — Kimberly Chin, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
• The restraint order passed by the respondent pursuant to the ad interim order and the confirmatory order restraining the appellant from functioning as a managing director is set aside.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
• Out of 360 Abbott test results checked through Friday, one negative test came back positive during confirmatory testing, Jilly said.
  — USA TODAY, 28 May 2020
• Such amendments could include proposals to keep Britain in the E.U. customs union or require a confirmatory referendum on the deal — essentially a second Brexit referendum, a do-over.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2019
• Technically, it can be taken off the market if a confirmatory study delivers negative results later this year.
  — Jason Mast Reprints, STAT, 30 June 2023
• An abnormal test result triggers a confirmatory test, such as gene sequencing, and potentially leads to a full diagnosis within two weeks.
  — Robert Moy, STAT, 30 Apr. 2018
• Sarepta said continued approval of the gene therapy may hinge on evidence from a confirmatory clinical trial.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
• The vaccine went through the FDA’s accelerated approval pathway, and will continue to be evaluated in confirmatory studies.
  — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 10 Nov. 2023
• In their complaints, the women said they were reported to child welfare agencies without being granted a second, confirmatory test, and that investigations were opened based solely off the hospital’s reporting.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 2 July 2022
• The accelerated-approval pathway is supposed to split the difference by making drugs available while confirmatory trials are pending.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• That’s because the government has been reporting suspect cases without waiting for confirmatory tests.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 8 June 2018
• What’s more, the only two surveys conducted after Jan. 29 provided a certain amount of confirmatory evidence.
  — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2016
• An amendment to add a confirmatory referendum seems unlikely to succeed.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2019
• So reporters expanded the investigation to other border towns and tourist destinations, using at-home testing strips followed by confirmatory lab tests to determine the pills’ contents.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2024
• Johnson’s critics would like to attach amendments to his plan, particularly a confirmatory referendum or keeping Britain in the EU customs territory.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024