retests 1 of 2

Definition of retestsnext
plural of retest

retests

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verb

present tense third-person singular of retest

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • The hotel samples some of the city's hottest restaurants and bars, spanning cuisine from China’s Chaoshan to Europe.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The Martian samples the scientists studied, which bore a strong match to rocks found near San Diego and South Africa, ranged from as small as a pebble to as large as a boulder.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Now, the exams, oral tests and presentations are weighted more heavily for students’ course grades than take-home problem sets.
    Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Simple field tests can provide further insight.
    Nora Doonan, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Students who were uninsured or underinsured received comprehensive eye exams and prescription glasses at no cost to their families.
    Christina Mayo, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
  • But Morath has cited the district’s overall below-average performance on the STAAR exams, which will need to improve before the state will return local control.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Some 450,000 owner-operators currently haul long-distance freight by the truckload, estimates Stephen Burks, a former truck driver and economist at the University of Minnesota Morris who researches the industry.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Mitch Prinstein, who researches technology and brain development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says teens shouldn't be getting notifications or at least not as many notifications of likes, or dislikes.
    Carmel Wroth, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • That is why the recent ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court allowing women to sit for the national rabbinical examinations feels so significant, and so deeply personal.
    Rabba Sara Hurwitz, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Included in the analysis were examinations of pay distribution, employment conditions, labor load and education rates of a demographic that makes up 39% of the Golden State’s labor force.
    Nicole Macias Garibay, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Ben Schiffrin, a former attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission, which investigates insider trading in stocks, told me.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke out against two recent incidents of vandalism at Catholic churches in Queens as the New York City Police Department investigates the mid-March events as hate crimes.
    Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2026
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“Retests.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retests. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.

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