How to Use peer review in a Sentence

peer review

noun
  • Most had not been caught during peer review.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
  • This glut was part of the reason that peer review arose in the first place.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
  • In fact, the peer review process at journals leaves much to be desired.
    — Simine Vazire, Wired, 25 June 2020
  • Someone will have to pay for the peer review, and the staff that runs the journals.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 24 Sep. 2018
  • But is that really what peer review means?
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Sometimes peer review doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to.
    — F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2025
  • After peer review, the study is now ready for prime time in Nature.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2020
  • To get published here, a study has to undergo a process called peer review.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 27 June 2020
  • This means there was no peer review by experts who would have shot it down instantly.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2024
  • In other words, passing peer review doesn’t mean that a paper is right.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Both research teams said the peer review process had made their findings more robust.
    — Laura Meckler, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2020
  • The paper’s critics say the mistakes should have been caught in peer review.
    — Bykai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Trump then fired off a series of tweets doubling down on his demands to halt the peer review.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2019
  • That’s called peer review, and its absence is the real problem here.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • After an hours-long closed-door meeting, trustees voted to have a peer review done.
    — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The research has been publicly shared, but hasn’t yet been published with peer review.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2017
  • That paper is under peer review.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • These papers, even those that have been through peer review, shouldn't just be taken for granted.
    — Kerry Flynn, CNN, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The paper, which is under peer review, shows that the size of the coastal discount has grown over time.
    — Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
  • May 6 is closing night, with a peer review award to be presented to one of the artists.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
  • None of them peer reviewed; all of them based on a little bit of information.
    — Cynthia Gordy Giwa, ProPublica, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The study in question also has not yet undergone the peer review process.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2021
  • His latest research has been shared as a preprint, in advance of peer review.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 7 Sep. 2022
  • They are elected for life through a peer review process based on excellence in science.
    — Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 19 June 2024
  • The important thing is that these scholars are not involved in the peer review of their own work.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
  • The work, which is under peer review at a journal, has been published as a preprint1.
    — Katharine Sanderson, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
  • That might be because many of the peer reviews were themselves done by AI.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Moreover, peer review is barely used for grant funding in most of Asia.
    — Richard C. Levin, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2010
  • The findings have been submitted for peer review.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 June 2026
  • With current peer review, that number is around 50%.
    — Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025

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