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acid test

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as in litmus test

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Recent Examples of acid test This was a place and time in history of tremendous creativity that grew out of the acid test parties, the beatnik poets, and the Summer Of Love. — Brian Halligan, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025 The azaleas will be the acid test. — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2025 Andrew Harnik | Getty Images Russia's drone incursion into Poland now poses an acid test for NATO and the European Union. — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025 While Google’s wildly popular TV analogue has hosted the out-of-market Sunday Ticket package since 2023, Friday’s AFC West clash will be an acid test. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for acid test

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Support for moratoriums on data center construction has become a litmus test for some voters, progressive and otherwise.

— Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
The fight between El-Sayed, who hails from the left flank of the Democratic Party, and moderate Stevens drew national attention as a kind of litmus test of progressivism in a key battleground state.

— Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026

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On Monday, Fort Smith Police Officer Jonathan Mounts and his family lost their home and belongings in a house fire, according to a Facebook post from the Fort Smith Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 39.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2026
Some 200 emergency personnel responded, finding the plane with heavy flames and smoke from a complex engine compartment fire, the department said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026

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Back on the doorstep of the goal one last time at the 100-minute mark, German Berterame’s header from the center of box off a cross from Yannick Bright went over the crossbar.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026
All who died, including my sister, Patricia Fagan, were a diverse cross-section of New Yorkers, and their memory can’t be erased.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026

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The show, Gunsmoke & Mirrors, is set in the late 19th century and chronicles the transformation of Christian Rørmose Madsen, who reinvented himself in the lawless crucible of the American West.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
Forged in crucibles of traumatic childhoods and unthinkable loss, both Batman and Alice seek to right wrongs that the criminal justice system won’t touch.

— Erin Qualey, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2026

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