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Some tests may be very sensitive but less specific — in other words, good at picking up the presence of virus when it is there but less good at saying when the virus is not there.

And the Gävle Goat, apparently a sensitive creature, took the destruction hard.

The expo is introduced by Mayor Anne Hildalgo, who describes it as a “sensitive reading of the upheavals in French society.”

But they are also sensitive to pressure and attention from the West.

It is this very sensitive issue that has galvanized widespread resistance from previously loyal campesinos.

He was highly perceptive and exquisitely sensitive to everything around him.

He felt, in his sensitive way, that the two sweet-souled Englishwomen had deepened and sanctified his love for Jean.

The eyebrows were low and thick, the upper lip was sensitive, quivering sometimes as she talked, but the lower was firm and full.

He was beset by his sensitive dislike to mix in other people's affairs, but almost angrily he overcame it.

And here he might have stopped with safety; but his roused, suspicious, sensitive nature, would not suffer him.

It is a sensitive test, and, when positive, is absolute proof of the presence of blood.