How to Use test ban in a Sentence

test ban

noun
  • Even so, no one has broken the de facto test ban since 1998 — except for North Korea.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 9 May 2018
  • Kennedy used the speech to announce his support for a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union, but his purpose was grander than that.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
  • So the treaty and the organization hang in limbo, preparing for a day when the world’s nuclear powers all agree to support the test ban.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 9 May 2018
  • In 2016, before the results of a drug test banned her from tennis, Maria Sharapova thought about the end of her career.
    — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2017
  • The clock's hands moved back to 12 minutes to midnight in 1963 following the nuclear atmospheric test ban treaty.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Because of nuclear test bans, the only legit way to stop worrying and learn to steward the bomb supply is to simulate—on a supercomputer—what’s going on inside.
    — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 4 June 2018
  • The test ban treaty was adopted in 1996 but has not entered into force because it must be ratified by 44 specific countries, and nine of them have not yet done so.
    — ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • And on the heels of California's animal-testing ban being signed into law on September 6, that's looking sooner than ever.
    — Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2018
  • In June 1963, Kennedy laid out his vision for a partial test ban treaty with the Soviets that would limit nuclear testing to underground sites.
    — New York Times, 30 Oct. 2021
  • During the Cold War, woman peace activists were instrumental in making negotiations of a partial nuclear test ban treaty a reality.
    — Izumi Nakamitsu, Teen Vogue, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Vo’s political totem, a pen once used to sign a 1963 nuclear test ban treaty, enshrines a kind of diplomacy that feels precarious in the era of Twitter foreign policy.
    — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
  • These tests have helped seismologists find ways of discriminating between underground explosions and earthquakes, the thorny issue on which efforts to frame a total test ban originally foundered in 1963.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Talking about its testing may primarily be an attempt to intimidate the West and force concessions on Ukraine, but Moscow withdrawing from the nuclear test ban treaty would be a huge deal, Alberque said.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Kuchel was an infamous progressive in the Republican Party at the time, playing roles in the Senate’s work to pass Medicare, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as well as conservation efforts and a nuclear test ban treaty.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026

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