How to Use DNA test in a Sentence

DNA test

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  • Adelstein questioned why Bradley was scrambling to get another DNA test just weeks before the trial.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 16 June 2024
  • Results for that DNA test have not been shared publicly yet.
    — Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 3 June 2024
  • Lily agrees to take a DNA test, but in the meantime Emily and her new sister get to know each other.
    — Josie Howell | , al, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Tens of millions of consumers have purchased and taken a DNA test.
    — Anne Wojcicki, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Perhaps a future DNA test will disclose what she might be mixed with.
    — The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The puppies come from a variety of breeds and mixes, with a DNA test showing their roots.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Would anyone care enough about a poison-pen letter to perform a DNA test?
    — Lucy Sante, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Among those petitions was Brown’s claim that a DNA test would have proven his innocence.
    — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Hunter Biden initially denied the claim, but a DNA test proved otherwise.
    — Maressa Brown, Parents, 19 Mar. 2024
  • But charges in her killing were delayed, pending DNA test results on a hair recovered from her remains, and the grand jury in the case continued its work.
    — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The assaults resulted in pregnancy, and a DNA test confirmed that Sullivan was the father of the child, the district attorney's office said.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The following month, a DNA test revealed that his youngest brother, Sufyan, also had the same disease-causing mutation.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Your wife should contact the relative in question, explain about her DNA test and inform her that she has been contacted by a man claiming he is related.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Eventually, a DNA test revealed Figueroa was not the infant’s mother, the outlet reported.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Officials also recommended taking a consumer DNA test but did not have kits on hand.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Investigators later confirmed the real Woods’ identity after obtaining a DNA test.
    — Dell Cameron Andrew Couts, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2024

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