How to Use false negative in a Sentence

false negative

noun

• So the cost of a false negative is much higher in medicine.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• The Simple 2 test may give a false negative test, the FDA said.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 22 Nov. 2023
• Carlos Duarte: There’s a lot of false negatives and a lot of false positives.
  — Joseph Polidoro, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2023
• What’s the risk if the model had false positives, or false negatives?
  — Brittany Trang, STAT, 22 May 2023
• Those are the various false positives and false negatives that would be part of the risk model.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Doing this can dilute hCG levels in your urine and lead to a false negative result.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 2 Aug. 2023
• The tests also showed false negative results in some samples that had extremely high amounts of cells in them.
  — Abdullahi Tsanni, STAT, 21 June 2023
• Then a fourth experiment failed to find any organic compounds in the soil, a result that may have been a false negative.
  — Marissa Grunes, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• Nucleic acid tests are faster and cheaper, but are less reliable and prone to false negatives.
  — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 11 Aug. 2023
• Your test may have given you a false negative, which are far more common than false positives, experts say.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 9 Sep. 2023
• And that may mean that any children who received false negative results have already been retested.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• As many as 15% of negative stress tests are false negatives, meaning that there really are blockages, but the stress test comes out normal.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2023
• My question is, can the dexamethasone injection affect the lab test and give a false negative result?
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 5 May 2023
• Remember, too, that false negatives are possible on at-home tests.
  — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 9 Jan. 2024
• Those numbers suggest that roughly 1 in 5 results would be false negatives and roughly 1 in 5 would be false positives.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
• The necessary chemicals are in short supply, and the fastest tests—those that produce results in under 15 minutes—struggle with false negatives.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2020
• Since the real world and the data that comes from it are messy, there are four possible outcomes of your model: a true positive, a false positive, a true negative, and a false negative.
  — Matt Ford, Ars Technica, 22 June 2022
• Imaging tests do not always pick up small tumors, so a second imaging test is done to prevent false negatives or positives.
  — Susan Russell, Health, 12 Sep. 2024
• The screening questions are meant to weed out potential donors who might have very recently contracted any of these viruses and whose blood might therefore test false negative.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2023
• Testing too late or too soon may result in a false negative, unknowingly causing infected people to spread the virus to others.
  — Ashley Abramson, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
• The study found that about 83% of participants who had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer via colonoscopy tested positive for the disease on the Shield test, compared with about 17% who had a false negative.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 29 July 2024
• This includes checking the expiration dates to avoid a false positive or false negative result.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 11 May 2023
• These testing errors can be simply from not following the instructions precisely and could result in a false negative.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 13 Oct. 2023
• After noticing herself gain weight despite playing 30 to 35 minutes per game, Hebard took a pregnancy test only to receive a false negative.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2023
• But the test could have some limitations—in previous experiments, only some individuals of a species have passed, which could mean the test has a high rate of false negatives, according to the new study.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
• In other disciplines, such as medicine, avoiding false negatives is more important.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, rapid tests still oftentimes provide a false negative if taken too soon after infection.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 17 July 2023
• For trans women, estrogen use could cause overall lower levels of PSA, making the screening tool even less effective and potentially increasing the risk of false negatives.
  — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023
• False positive results are rare, says Dr. Dweck, but false negative results can definitely occur.
  — Sarah Bradley, Parents, 2 Feb. 2024
• The analysis is susceptible to false negatives — some products of living systems, such as Ardbeg single malt scotch, have AIs suggesting a nonliving origin.
  — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2023

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024