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How to use the word false-positive in a Sentence?

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We think it was a false positive.

Nate McMillan

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We don’t want these patients to get a false positive to have this sort of alarm.

Brett Parkinson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Follow up tests confirmed that there is no HIV virus present, just a false positive on certain HIV tests. There is no possibility the vaccine causes infection.

Scott Morrison

Found on CNN
4 years ago

RT-PCR tests boast an accuracy of 95%. This means that there still can be 2-5% of those cases that are detected false negative or false positive cases.

Kim Jeong-ki

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

That means about one in three tests is going to have a false positive.

Richard Hawk

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

But certain fertility treatments contain hCG, which can lead to a false positive, it can be really tough, especially when you really want to get pregnant, to find out that you’re actually not.

Mary Jane Minkin

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Some women who have a scare through a false positive actually are less likely to want to have mammograms because it was a scary experience.

Richard Wender

Found on CNN
9 years ago

False positive killings amount to one of the worst episodes of mass atrocity in the Western Hemisphere in recent years, and there is mounting evidence that many senior army officers bear responsibility, yet the army officials in charge at the time of the killings have escaped justice and even ascended to the top of the military command, including the current heads of the army and armed forces.

Jose Miguel Vivanco

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Of course you might be anxious. But I’d trade a false positive for a false negative any day.

Nancy Cappello

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The big fear has been that the market gets flooded with tests of unknown quality, or unknown performance, and with Ebola you need to know what are the limitations. A false negative has enormous implications. So does a false positive, so this is not a perfect test but... for a rapid test, (it is) not too bad at all.

Robyn Meurant

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

The big fear has been that the market gets flooded with tests of unknown quality, or unknown performance, and with Ebola you need to know what are the limitations. A false positive has enormous implications. So does a false positive, so this is not a perfect test but... for a rapid test, (it is) not too bad at all.

Robyn Meurant

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

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