How to Use retest in a Sentence

retest

verb
  • Many of those students had to retest earlier this month.
    Dallas News, 16 June 2020
  • Doctors pulled him from the field to retest him at the stadium and the test returned positive.
    Daniel Oyefusi, baltimoresun.com, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The exam is administered in the spring but students can retest in the summer.
    Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Analysts at some of the biggest U.S. banks predict the stock market will retest its 2022 lows in the first half of the new year before beginning to rebound.
    Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Travelers must self-isolate for seven days and then retest.
    NBC News, 29 Mar. 2021
  • And don't be afraid to frequently test and retest your messaging and strategy.
    Ub Ciminieri, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The labs selected to retest Viridis' products were competitor labs that have complained about Viridis having a large portion of the market for testing cannabis in the past.
    Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Charron said that after hearing from the Tribune the district decided to retest the five replaced fixtures.
    Emily Hoerner, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
  • Regulations required it to retest the water before sounding the alarm.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 20 Sep. 2022
  • ProPublica spoke with eight households the EPA monitored, and all said they were never retested or advised to retest on their own.
    Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But pooling doesn’t work if too many samples are positive because lab workers often have to retest the batches to find the positive results.
    Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Jain found 10 positives among the guests but was able to repeatedly retest them to ensure that by the time some events occurred days later, most were no longer infectious and could attend with masks.
    Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The first case was confirmed July 27, and the ensuing outbreak prompted the prison to retest its entire population multiple times this month.
    Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2020
  • The allegations of fraud prompted the Navy to retest portions of the site, setting the overall redevelopment back by five years or more and delaying the creation of thousands of housing units.
    J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2021
  • Because of the results, the Giants required all players, coaches, team personnel and management to retest Wednesday.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The club eventually will retest those who tested positive.
    Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2020
  • The medical examiner plans to retest all cases from 2022 and all cases going forward.
    Trisha Thadani, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Oregon plans to test all workers and residents in large senior care homes for the coronavirus by Sept. 30 and then retest all workers once a month, public health officials announced Monday.
    oregonlive, 16 June 2020
  • If test results are inaccurate, nursing homes should retest samples to correct errors.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2020
  • But even that date remains uncertain, as the authorities continue to retest residents, meaning the lockdown clock could reset at any time.
    Steven Jiang, CNN, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Authorities were also able to seek out patients with severe respiratory symptoms and retest them for Covid-19.
    Dan Xin Huang, The New Republic, 24 May 2021
  • Nursing homes should retest residents weekly until none test positive.
    NBC News, 12 June 2020
  • As classrooms reopened in the fall, the district required all returning students and staff to take a baseline test, then to retest weekly regardless of vaccination status as a condition of in-person instruction.
    New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Hogenesch had hoped that pharmaceutical company executives would read the Science paper and be inspired to retest their existing drugs with timing as a variable.
    New York Times, 6 July 2022
  • Rather than retest every sample in the batch individually, the mathematical formula dictates how to create and overlap smaller groups from the batch in a way that allows the positive samples to be identified.
    Ignatius Ssuuna, Star Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020
  • An ongoing lawsuit filed by the California attorney general’s office and three city attorneys in 2020 against Uber and Lyft might be one avenue to retest employee classification in the courts.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The university will retest other students after spending this week retesting those in fraternities in sororities.
    Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Officials have to lure poll workers away from vacations, relocate polling places booked for summer weddings, maintenance, or other events, and repeatedly retest ballot language after the state’s high court found errors.
    Julie Carr Smyth, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • Technical analysts often look for securities to retest old resistance levels as new support.
    Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • One is that the experience has given economists new opportunities to retest old theories about matters such as unemployment benefits and the labor market.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023

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