Examples of acid test in a Sentence
The new team faced its first acid test when it played the national champions.
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The state now is trying to correct what went wrong, but the acid test will be how EDD performs when the next recession strikes.
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Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
Again, when she was done, the acid test: a flip of the switch and – voilà! – light.
—Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2024
An orange laminate kitchen straight out of an electric Kool-Aid acid test.
—Martha McPhee, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
While the park had hosted bluegrass, drum circles and ’60s-era acid tests, a concert had never happened there after the park’s 7p.m. curfew.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
In our family, the acid test for a barbecue sauce is tasting it separately from the meat by mopping it up from the plate with a slice of Wonder Bread – a fine old Arthur Bryant’s tradition.
—Michael Alberty, oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2023
The Inside Story Of Papa John's Toxic Culture Market Trends Signal Blue Skies Ahead For Boeing Commercial Airplanes Legend ‘Big Daddy’ Gives Advice To Aspiring Drag Racers, More As for Chelsea, the encounter will prove an acid test.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
And of course, that’s going to be the acid test.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2020
The next big political story, the runoff elections in Georgia, might be an acid test for a political media industry that’s increasingly concentrated in Washington, D.C., and New York City, and which remains too fixated on gossip-laden political content.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
Again, when she was done, the acid test: a flip of the switch and – voilà! – light.
—Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2024
An orange laminate kitchen straight out of an electric Kool-Aid acid test.
—Martha McPhee, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
While the park had hosted bluegrass, drum circles and ’60s-era acid tests, a concert had never happened there after the park’s 7p.m. curfew.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
In our family, the acid test for a barbecue sauce is tasting it separately from the meat by mopping it up from the plate with a slice of Wonder Bread – a fine old Arthur Bryant’s tradition.
—Michael Alberty, oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2023
The Inside Story Of Papa John's Toxic Culture Market Trends Signal Blue Skies Ahead For Boeing Commercial Airplanes Legend ‘Big Daddy’ Gives Advice To Aspiring Drag Racers, More As for Chelsea, the encounter will prove an acid test.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
And of course, that’s going to be the acid test.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2020
The next big political story, the runoff elections in Georgia, might be an acid test for a political media industry that’s increasingly concentrated in Washington, D.C., and New York City, and which remains too fixated on gossip-laden political content.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
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“Acid test.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acid%20test. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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