testing ground

noun

1

: a place where machines, vehicles, etc., are tested to see if they are working correctly

a testing ground for weapons

2

: a place or situation in which new ideas, methods, etc., can be tried

Her class served as a testing ground for new teaching methods.

Examples of testing ground in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Interestingly, Netflix had picked France as its testing ground for its first linear channel (named Direct) back in 2020 but the experiment was short-lived. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 18 June 2026

The company said the environment can also serve as a secure testing ground for AI development tools and next-generation cloud architectures before they are adopted within the DoD’s existing supercomputing infrastructure. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 June 2026

While Mexico serves as the initial testing ground, the company explicitly intends to scale this international shipping framework to additional global markets down the road. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 12 June 2026

Aesthetic medicine becomes a testing ground for new treatments, where outcomes are easily measured and observed, in the short term and the long term, bridging between theory and practice. — Dr. Tal Patalon, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026

Rhymes for testing ground

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