acid test

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Recent Examples of acid test The state now is trying to correct what went wrong, but the acid test will be how EDD performs when the next recession strikes. Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024 Again, when she was done, the acid test: a flip of the switch and – voilà! – light. Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2024 An orange laminate kitchen straight out of an electric Kool-Aid acid test. Martha McPhee, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023 While the park had hosted bluegrass, drum circles and ’60s-era acid tests, a concert had never happened there after the park’s 7p.m. curfew. Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019 See all Example Sentences for acid test 
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Noun
  • Amazon's return-to-office policy is a litmus test for whether in-person work can revive urban life downtown, which has been slower to rebound from the pandemic's economic blow than many other city centers.
    Christine Clarridge, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Maine Independent Senator Angus King asked whether political litmus tests would influence CIA hiring operations.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Her litmus to make sure these moments were successful?
    William Earl, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
  • One of the best was the part about enjoying the season and not making playoff success your litmus for hockey fandom happiness.
    Murat Ates, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The quartz mined from this area is used as a crucible to melt polysilicon, which is then used to produce silicon wafers — the base of a semiconductor.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 30 Sep. 2024
  • But the real crucible for the mayor is only just beginning to take shape, with her political prospects inextricably tied to the almost unfathomably knotty recovery ahead.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Yesterday, the sound of artillery fire could be heard across the city and thousands of people carrying their belongings rushed for the city center, trying to escape the fighting.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Ahead of the storm, the National Weather Service issued flood watches for the Palisades, Eaton, Hughes, Franklin and Bridge fire burn scars.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Thilo Kehrer, who rises above Mings, meets the resulting cross emphatically.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • In the center of the back of the coin, a large cross was meant to symbolize imperial power, establishing Otto III’s Christianity and blending it with the power of the empire, according to historians.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025

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