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

There’s no definitive test for the disease, though evidence of the increased pressure is sometimes visible on an M.R.I.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2021

The new randomized trial was designed to be a definitive test.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2020

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