retested

verb

Definition of retestednext
past tense of retest
as in investigated

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  1. investigated
  2. tested
  3. examined
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  • At this same point in 2023, police had investigated 112 homicides.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • The shooting marked the 74th killing this year to be investigated as a homicide by the Oakland Police Department.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
Definition of investigated
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  • Keep reading for the best space heaters PEOPLE tested.
    Katie Begley, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • And those are just the substances that turned up in the specific batches that were tested, Michienzi notes.
    Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of tested
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  • Published Thursday in Science, the research from Schultz and colleagues examined genetic data from 276 species of ants and 475 fungi species to create evolutionary trees of both groups.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
  • For years, ProPublica has examined the deaths of pregnant women and new mothers to uncover problems that can prevent other deaths.
    Alexandra Zayas, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of examined
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