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Bruce Fuller, a UC Berkeley professor of education and public policy, said it would be concerning if the results of an unvalidated test were used to start tracking a child in kindergarten.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2024

In 2019, infectious disease doctors warned that long-term Lyme disease cases were often misdiagnosed through "expensive and unvalidated" tests abroad.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2021

Desperate health-care workers have resorted to unvalidated measures to find alternative methods of protecting themselves.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2020

To piece together the bacterial phylogenies, they had to use an unvalidated method developed by an academic microbiologist — Paul Keim at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

From Nature • Feb. 26, 2014

If what validates your travel is an obsequious welcome by a desk clerk, prepare to be unvalidated here.

From New York Times • May 17, 2013