acid test

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Recent Examples of acid test The 2025 season could very well be an acid test of sorts for Purdy. Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025 But the acid test will only come on upcoming flights, beginning Sunday with the vehicle's tenth test flight. Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2025 Liverpool passed acid tests in Milan and Manchester, and are perfect from six Champions League games, only conceding once. Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024 That was the acid test that our music was acceptable. David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for acid test
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Noun
  • This battle of conference unbeaten programs will be the ultimate litmus test.
    Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The next month will be a litmus test for the team’s postseason viability.
    Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And, of course, this is the first major litmus tense of the young and divisive Donald Trump presidency.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Her litmus to make sure these moments were successful?
    William Earl, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The academy is a crucible for human formation, a place where minds and hearts are forged in the fire of inquiry, reflection, complexity and nuance.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • And the crucible of what kind of waves this team leaves for its successors.
    Brian Robin, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Then the 23-year-old's plane suddenly dove straight into the ground and caught on fire.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The film recreates the circumstances that surrounded Hind Rajab’s actual killing in January 2024, in which Red Crescent volunteers struggled to send an ambulance to rescue the child, who was trapped under fire in Gaza.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Javier Mascherano’s side took firm control in the 62nd minute when Messi, hovering deep, fed overlapping fullback Ian Fray down the right, and the Jamaican international’s cross was perfectly headed home by Tadeo Allende.
    The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Once the threat level jumps to Defcon 1, so does the movie, and the cross-cutting between various parties issuing emergency orders and assessing the situation in terse acronym-heavy jargon begins in earnest.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Acid test.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acid%20test. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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