How to Use test ban in a Sentence

test ban

noun
  • Even so, no one has broken the de facto test ban since 1998 — except for North Korea.
    Rachel Becker, The Verge, 9 May 2018
  • In 2016, before the results of a drug test banned her from tennis, Maria Sharapova thought about the end of her career.
    Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Kennedy used the speech to announce his support for a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union, but his purpose was grander than that.
    Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
  • So the treaty and the organization hang in limbo, preparing for a day when the world’s nuclear powers all agree to support the test ban.
    Rachel Becker, The Verge, 9 May 2018
  • In June 1963, Kennedy laid out his vision for a partial test ban treaty with the Soviets that would limit nuclear testing to underground sites.
    New York Times, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Vo’s political totem, a pen once used to sign a 1963 nuclear test ban treaty, enshrines a kind of diplomacy that feels precarious in the era of Twitter foreign policy.
    Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
  • President Trump may be an unlikely champion for a nuclear test ban.
    Sharon Squassoni, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Because of nuclear test bans, the only legit way to stop worrying and learn to steward the bomb supply is to simulate—on a supercomputer—what’s going on inside.
    Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 4 June 2018
  • And on the heels of California's animal-testing ban being signed into law on September 6, that's looking sooner than ever.
    Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2018
  • During the Cold War, woman peace activists were instrumental in making negotiations of a partial nuclear test ban treaty a reality.
    Izumi Nakamitsu, Teen Vogue, 8 Mar. 2018

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