definitive test
Example Sentences
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There are long waiting times to see a specialist allergist for a definitive test.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2023
The question of how to diagnose Long Covid has been controversial, and the new study’s results are unlikely to lead to a definitive test any time soon.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 31, 2023
It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly how many people are diagnosed with T.I.A each year, Dr. Schwartz said, because there is no definitive test for it.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
Aspelmeyer’s efforts to isolate gravitational forces between progressively smaller masses are a critical step toward such a definitive test.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 10, 2021
This was important in the long term, because in the nineteenth century it would provide a definitive test of whether light does travel as a wave or whether it travels as a stream of particles.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
