stress test
noun
: an electrocardiographic test of heart function before, during, and after a controlled period of increasingly strenuous exercise (as on a treadmill)
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Multiple stress tests have to be passed, including ice water immersion, impact tests, and high levels of loading across the display.
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Ewan Spence, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
The results were better than a previous stress test conducted in 2021, even though the scenarios imposed were the toughest to date, the European Banking Authority said Friday.
—WSJ, 28 July 2023
TikTok isn’t the only large tech platform to submit to an EU stress test.
—Brian Fung, CNN, 19 July 2023
This trend is one of the reasons why climate stress tests, usually conducted by financial regulators, should be done on the banking and insurance industries together.
—Nina Seega, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Still, the two-and-a-half-year vaccine binge created a type of immune system stress test that doctors never would have allowed to happen on their watch.
—Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Minutes into her stress test, she was sent for an ultrasound and angiogram.
—Taayoo Murray, Essence, 1 Feb. 2024
That’s what the Bank of England wants to examine in its latest stress test.
—Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
The results of the Fed’s most recent series of stress tests showed that the largest US banks are able to weather a recession and still provide lending to consumers and businesses.
—Bryan Mena, CNN, 14 Aug. 2023
Ewan Spence, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
The results were better than a previous stress test conducted in 2021, even though the scenarios imposed were the toughest to date, the European Banking Authority said Friday.
—WSJ, 28 July 2023
TikTok isn’t the only large tech platform to submit to an EU stress test.
—Brian Fung, CNN, 19 July 2023
This trend is one of the reasons why climate stress tests, usually conducted by financial regulators, should be done on the banking and insurance industries together.
—Nina Seega, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Still, the two-and-a-half-year vaccine binge created a type of immune system stress test that doctors never would have allowed to happen on their watch.
—Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Minutes into her stress test, she was sent for an ultrasound and angiogram.
—Taayoo Murray, Essence, 1 Feb. 2024
That’s what the Bank of England wants to examine in its latest stress test.
—Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
The results of the Fed’s most recent series of stress tests showed that the largest US banks are able to weather a recession and still provide lending to consumers and businesses.
—Bryan Mena, CNN, 14 Aug. 2023
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First Known Use
1955, in the meaning defined above
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stress test
noun
: an electrocardiographic test of heart function before, during, and after a controlled period of increasingly strenuous exercise (as on a treadmill)
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