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Oxford maintained that he was innocent but agreed to give police a cheek swab for a DNA test.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The kit contains a swab which is used to collect a sample at home before it is posted off for testing free of charge.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

The test could be performed using DNA collected from a blood sample or mouth swab.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

For $249, patients can order the test and mail in a swab, and after a few weeks they receive a GLP-1 “effectiveness score.”

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

Darkness had fallen on the construction site and swab lows were swooping back and forth, chasing mosquitoes.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

Nonprofit SecureBio monitors wastewater and nasal swabs to deter biological attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The detective later told Tamasi not to send any of the DNA swabs for testing, she said in her deposition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Dana next swabs Ilana’s mouth — the inside of her cheek and along the gum line — and her finger nails.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

This approach revealed genetic material from PRV in archived throat swabs.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026

Mr. Landau dips a Q-tip into some blue water that he assures me is nontoxic and swabs my tongue with it.

From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead

Tamasi swabbed for DNA samples in Spivey’s truck—door handles and such.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Officials swabbed his cheek to obtain DNA, and then moved him to Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026

And though a forensics expert swabbed the interior of the yacht for explosives, there were no testing facilities on the island, said Allan Galbraith, the superintendent in charge of Operation Rainbow.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

Last year, the U.S. introduced HPV testing, where samples are swabbed from the vaginal wall rather than scraped from the cervix, as a less invasive alternative to the pap smear.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025

She swabbed at the counter with her thumb, smudging the granite.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Nurses and doctors wore biohazard suits and three layers of medical gloves when they entered his room, swabbing him for virus up his nostrils and in other sites like his eyelids twice a day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

They also conduct their own in-house testing, which can include extensive swabbing of surfaces, raw ingredients, finished products and areas where listeria is known to thrive, such as floor drains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

Prof Walsh, who has studied drug-resistant superbugs for 25 years, said there “should have been intensive swabbing and staff should have been more vigilant” after the bacteria was first detected in November 2021.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2024

Iwasaki cautioned against the idea that people swabbing their noses with Neosporin will be a cure-all in the future.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2024

So Humason took odd jobs at the observatory—electrician’s assistant, janitor, swabbing the floors of the telescope he had helped to build.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan