litmus

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Recent Examples of litmus Alpert maintains that his litmus for music has remained the same throughout the decades. Gary Graff, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2024 Looking into next year, Fallout will be an early litmus. Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2023 The 2023 roster will feature two players who could represent litmus tests for how aggressively the Sox will approach such extensions: righthander Brayan Bello and first baseman Triston Casas. Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023 As 2023 is set to begin, the MAGA movement remains formidable if splintered in terms of its goals and its litmus tests. Byrick Klein, Averi Harper, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2022 See All Example Sentences for litmus
Recent Examples of Synonyms for litmus
Noun
  • By Jonathan Beeby, managing director, SAP Concur Australia and New Zealand Business travel has become a litmus test for how organisations adapt to modern working norms, evolving employee expectations, and ongoing cost-control pressures.
    Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • The pledge became a litmus test for fiscally conservative GOP candidates and cemented the party’s anti-tax stance.
    Drew Kurlowski, The Conversation, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • When that happens, a building’s value as a spiritual crucible gets converted into monetary value.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 27 June 2025
  • But public mandates aren’t summoned by spreadsheets, they are forged in the crucible of culture.
    Solitaire Townsend, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • When Silva could only half-clear Neto’s cross, Joao Pedro took one touch to control the ball, another to get it out from under his feet and then curled it perfectly beyond the reach of goalkeeper Fabio.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 9 July 2025
  • The giant moa — a husky, wingless bird that could stand almost 12 feet tall — once booked it across New Zealand’s landscapes on legs that looked like a cross between an overgrown chicken and a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
    Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • This is the real acid test for these insurance companies.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 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

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“Litmus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/litmus. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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