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
Her former mother-in-law had died of ALS in 1988, and Emmons knew there is no definitive test for the fatal disease.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021
That is your definitive test to ignore the matter.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2017
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
