How to Use paternity test in a Sentence

paternity test

noun
  • Some fathers’-rights groups have even called for mandatory paternity tests at birth.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Things changed dramatically when her boyfriend was required to take a paternity test to enroll his daughter in a program.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Musk reportedly offered her $15 million to keep quiet about the kid but then publicly volunteered to take a paternity test.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Musk reportedly offered her $15 million to keep quiet about the kid but then publicly volunteered to take a paternity test.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Investigators found Javier Martinez Calzada, a paralegal, marketed legal help to a man seeking a paternity test for a custody case.
    — Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Waterman's family is now fighting for custody of the child, pending a paternity test, CNY Central reported.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Diggs was recently confirmed via a paternity test to be the father of model Aileen Lopera’s daughter, Charliee Harper Diggs-Lopera.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The immediate developments to watch included any court filings that formally detail payments, custody arrangements and paternity test records, and any on-the-record comments from attorneys representing either side.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Anderson envisioned the scene where Penn’s Lockjaw does his paternity test with Willa as taking place in a chapel, so La Purisima’s sanctuary provided the perfect backdrop for his perverse quest.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
  • For much of the twentieth century, the closest thing to a paternity test was the ABO blood-type test, invented in 1924 by a German doctor named Fritz Schiff.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Maury Povich spent decades at the center of one of daytime television’s most polarizing phenomena, presiding over paternity tests, lie detector results and the kind of raw confrontations that defined the height of ’90s talk TV.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026

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