pregnancy test

noun

: a medical test to see if a woman is pregnant

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One picture in the announcement included a snap of a baby onesie, a positive pregnancy test and a sonogram strip. — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026 Four weeks later, she is still nauseated and her pregnancy test remains positive. — Jennifer Karlin, STAT, 11 Aug. 2026 Like fainting, craving pickles, or struggling to wiggle into skinny jeans, vomiting, in the cultural imagination, is a stand-in for imminent motherhood, as legible as any pregnancy test. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026 However, the finale shows Oreana eyeing the positive results of a pregnancy test before asking Carter to run away together and start over. — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for pregnancy test

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pregnancy test

noun
: a physiological test to determine the existence of pregnancy in an individual
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