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Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
Choose an easy-to-use rebate platform, create simple directions and remember to test and retest to make sure everything works smoothly.
—Tom Treanor, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is moving to retest DNA samples in thousands of criminal cases and expects to spend at least $7.5 million to remedy problems discovered in one longtime employee’s lab work, according to a state budget request.
—Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2024
Equity markets have enjoyed a tremendous November rally that allowed the S&P 500 to break out of its downtrend pattern and retest the July 31st peak.
—Sean Hanlon, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
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The Insurance Institute will continue to monitor software updates and improvements and will periodically retest the systems, Harkey said.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
Choose an easy-to-use rebate platform, create simple directions and remember to test and retest to make sure everything works smoothly.
—Tom Treanor, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is moving to retest DNA samples in thousands of criminal cases and expects to spend at least $7.5 million to remedy problems discovered in one longtime employee’s lab work, according to a state budget request.
—Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2024
Equity markets have enjoyed a tremendous November rally that allowed the S&P 500 to break out of its downtrend pattern and retest the July 31st peak.
—Sean Hanlon, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retest
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Students who read the essay without a pretest were given additional time to study, or else the students’ attention was focused on the critical passages in one of several ways: by italicizing the critical section or by making the key term that would be tested bold, or by a combination of strategies.Bridgid Finn, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2010
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After families submit an initial pretest for students, the district manages the weekly testing through mobile clinics that move from campus to campus.Howard Blume Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021
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Authorities are investigating a shooting that left two people injured early Saturday morning in Union City.Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
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Still others are investigating viruses that attack Bd and eventually might be used to reduce its virulence.Martin J. Kernan, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2024
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But when the gaps between grades and test scores are this immense and consistent, parents and the public should not be fooled.Karin Klein, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Cutting-edge test yields diagnoses for some medical mysteries A researcher loads DNA samples into a biorobot at UCSF’s China Basin laboratories.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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For the latter, Mike chopped up his band’s still-rising hit and reorganized the instrumental into a repeating pattern, similar to a DJ sampling part of an old rock song for a new rap track.Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2024
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The margin of sampling error for voters in the AP VoteCast survey was estimated to be plus or minus 0.4 percentage points.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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Allegations of cheating by officers on a promotional exam that swept through the Los Angeles Police Department over the summer were found to be false after an internal investigation, officials said this week.Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
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Both specialists can perform regular exams to detect eye diseases and prescribe contact lenses or glasses.Vanessa Caceres, Verywell Health, 21 Nov. 2024
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Days later, the city announced that resampling from 24 of the homes that had high lead levels found only two still above the federal action threshold — a drop that the NRDC says is almost impossible in less than two months.Kyla Guilfoil, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
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Hardware inputs and color groups can be routed to the master bus or an infinite number of buses via discrete send knobs that are either pre- or post-fader, or other color groups that can resample separate audio sources that are merged into a single color group and loop.Pete Cottell, WIRED, 2 May 2024
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In most cases, an intelligence test will be compared with a standardized achievement test to see if there is a discrepancy between the two scores.Christian Dashiell, Parents, 30 July 2024
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Typically, an intelligence test alone cannot determine whether a child has a learning disability.Christian Dashiell, Parents, 30 July 2024
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Even elementary and high school students need to take entrance exams and placement tests.Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
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Many are trying to identify gaps sooner, adopting placement tests that delve deeper into math skills.Collin Binkley, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2023
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“Retest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retest. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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