How to Use tested in a Sentence

tested

adjective
  • With a veteran team and a tested coach, the Horned Frogs should hold their own in the deep Big 12.
    Patrick Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • One woman had a cancer so rare there were no tested treatments.
    Gina Kolata, New York Times, 8 June 2017
  • Some advocacy groups argued at the time that the drug had been too little tested.
    New York Times, 14 Aug. 2019
  • There are some other more tested athletes in this weight class that could mess with that 1-2 finish and nothing seems certain here.
    Brant Parsons, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The non-tested cohort includes people who have no symptoms, but will in coming days.
    Joel Achenbach, Star Tribune, 18 Nov. 2020
  • In Jay-Z, though, the brand’s found a tested veteran and Hall of Fame rapper who brings cachet to potential signees and customers.
    Cam Wolf, GQ, 19 June 2018
  • On Wednesday, Newcomb said more tests were performed and more tested postive.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2021
  • In some cases, black-market cannabis vape juice can cost 5-7 times less than what legal, tested products cost, experts said.
    Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2019
  • And there was no tested way of dealing with a severe presidential illness.
    Maureen Groppe, Indianapolis Star, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The message has been entirely about Ossoff, and the poll-tested reasons Republicans should choke down any reservations and vote against him.
    David Weigel, Washington Post, 20 June 2017
  • But there are tested solutions that are imperfect but do chip away at these problems–and often save public money.
    Time, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Bergeron’s leadership was representative of a tested Boston team that has been through many of these scenarios.
    Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 9 June 2019
  • This means that comparing the economy of one tested vehicle to another can be imperfect except for in our comparison tests, for which all the cars are driven the same distances and in the same conditions.
    Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Nominating Abrams would be to take a different, arguably more modern, but also arguably less tested, approach.
    Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 21 May 2018
  • For more information on how the Environmental Working Group determines its scores, to see the full list of tested products and its ratings, and to read more of the organization's sun-safety tips, visit the 2018 sunscreen guide at ewg.org.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 22 May 2018
  • Attalus, who had a reputation for paranoia, tested extracts of these plants on convicts as a rehearsal for disposing of political rivals.
    Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2020
  • And the consistent and tested methodology used by experienced but distant researchers can be more accurate than reports produced by local agencies newer to the game.
    Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Kaleak said Buds Below Zero will have safe, clean and tested marijuana products verified by licensed facilities within the state.
    Author: Jenna Kunze, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Covid protocols mean the pre-tested audience is smaller than usual -- but the leather trousers, confounding lyrical choices and trademark key changes that define music's most bewildering spectacle are all very much present and correct.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 21 May 2021
  • Please give Minnesota medical cannabis patients access to natural, affordable, safe, tested cannabis flower.
    Star Tribune, 14 Feb. 2021
  • Today, traditional and tested approaches will work better than innovative ones.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • To predict positronium’s properties, physicists need use only the relatively simple quantum theory of electric and magnetic forces, or quantum electrodynamics (QED), perhaps the most precise and best tested theory in physics.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Interested in more tested, reliable BHG Recommends products?
    Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2022

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