stress test
noun
: an electrocardiographic test of heart function before, during, and after a controlled period of increasingly strenuous exercise (as on a treadmill)
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Family offices should conduct thorough due diligence, stress test their portfolios for different economic scenarios and consider defensive investment strategies, focusing on recession-resistant asset classes (e.g., multifamily, industrial or healthcare real estate).
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Dj Van Keuren, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
The Federal Aviation Administration put its systems through stress tests and mock scenarios as 2000 drew closer.
—Jack Mitchell, NPR, 28 Dec. 2024
Hundreds of videos online can’t be lying: when beauty enthusiasts stress test the performance of this setting spray, product swatches and even lipstick won’t budge after a generous spritz.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2025
That includes what bank executives have called an opaque Fed stress test process, long turnaround times for merger approvals and what bankers have said are sometimes unfair confidential bank exams, Barrage said.
—Hugh Son, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025
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Dj Van Keuren, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
The Federal Aviation Administration put its systems through stress tests and mock scenarios as 2000 drew closer.
—Jack Mitchell, NPR, 28 Dec. 2024
Hundreds of videos online can’t be lying: when beauty enthusiasts stress test the performance of this setting spray, product swatches and even lipstick won’t budge after a generous spritz.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2025
That includes what bank executives have called an opaque Fed stress test process, long turnaround times for merger approvals and what bankers have said are sometimes unfair confidential bank exams, Barrage said.
—Hugh Son, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Stress test.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stress%20test. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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