retesting

verb

present participle of retest
as in investigating

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  1. investigating
  2. testing
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  • Federal investigators, the Secret Service and the Sheriff’s Department are still investigating the matter, and Taele could face additional charges.
    — Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a small plane on a training flight that made an emergency landing on a Florida interstate Monday morning, narrowly missing highway signs and vehicles.
    — Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of investigating
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  • Anthropic said a misconfiguration allowed Claude models to reach the internet from testing environments that were supposed to be isolated, leading to unauthorized access to three organizations’ systems.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 31 July 2026
  • Engineers plan to integrate the system with a lunar rover before testing it on Earth and later demonstrating it on the Moon.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026
Definition of testing
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“Retesting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retesting. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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