How to Use false negative in a Sentence

false negative

noun
  • There are false negatives that need to be kept at bay.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • What are the false positive and false negative rates for this test?
    — Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • This is an example of a false negative.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • This is an example of a false negative.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • But the question of false positives and false negatives did come up.
    — Alice Hines, ProPublica, 20 Jan. 2026
  • What’s the risk if the model had false positives, or false negatives?
    — Brittany Trang, STAT, 22 May 2023
  • The company said the main risks of the test are false positives and false negatives.
    — Jennifer Klump, Verywell Health, 23 May 2025
  • The key is to watch out for rendering false positives and false negatives.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Of course, false negatives also have to be minimized.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2020
  • Those are the various false positives and false negatives that would be part of the risk model.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Remember, too, that false negatives are possible on at-home tests.
    — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 9 Jan. 2024
  • And there's another risk on the other side, which is that there's sort of the false negatives and the false positive.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Are errors more likely to result in false positives or false negatives?
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Doing this can dilute hCG levels in your urine and lead to a false negative result.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The Simple 2 test may give a false negative test, the FDA said.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 22 Nov. 2023
  • This can result in more false negatives and delays in diagnosis.
    — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 23 Oct. 2024
  • False positives are worrisome, just as are false negatives.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • 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
  • The monetary loss for each false negative, such as when a model fails to flag a fraudulent transaction.
    — Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • False positives and false negatives are the two primary errors.
    — Vijayan Asari, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
  • Taking a pregnancy test too early can produce a false negative result.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 22 May 2025
  • 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
  • In other disciplines, such as medicine, avoiding false negatives is more important.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • My question is, can the dexamethasone injection affect the lab test and give a false negative result?
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 5 May 2023
  • The agency added that the risks associated with the blood test are mainly the risk of a false positive or false negative test result.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
  • This includes checking the expiration dates to avoid a false positive or false negative result.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 11 May 2023

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