How to Use acid test in a Sentence

acid test

noun

• The new team faced its first acid test when it played the national champions.
• The Raiders have been stingy against the run through two games, but this is the acid test.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2019
• How well a truck is loaded is the acid test of a mover.
  — Longreads, 21 Sep. 2017
• The acid test is whether India will use green approaches in 2050.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 18 Mar. 2021
• Also ready for the acid test: quarterback Chance Nolan.
  — oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2021
• This really is the acid test as to whether OSU’s run defense has improved.
  — oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2019
• That is the real acid test for whether this government can achieve results.
  — John Follain, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• The acid test is, of course, how much green hydrogen produced using these methods will cost.
  — Whitaker Irvin Jr., Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
• Any airport lounge, followed by the relentless drone of an aircraft in flight, is the acid test for noise-cancelling headphones.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2022
• The acid test is whether a company can maintain its profit margin - the percentage of sales that flows to earnings.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• But Berlin’s European Film Market will be the industry’s true acid test.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2023
• Batman sits square in that company, the proverbial middle manager at the acid test.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 Jan. 2022
• Meanwhile, Ryan's plans to cut benefit programs faced the acid test last year as well, during last year's health care debacle.
  — chicagotribune.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• That continuing power of inspiration, it might be argued, is the acid test of Burle Marx’s greatness.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
• The first foreign trip for any vice president is an acid test, and Harris was under more pressure than most as a potential future leader of the party and the first woman of color to hold the office.
  — Maeve Reston, CNN, 9 June 2021
• Michael Wolff's book has become the acid test for whether people believe in the truth or are simply interested in taking down President Trump at whatever cost.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2018
• But ultimately, that nexus of content and style is the most important acid test of any translation, and many of Ruden’s choices will strike readers as decidedly odd.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2021
• Belonging is the acid test of a culture’s authenticity.
  — Eric Mosley, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• The power is shifting from employees to organizations, and this will be an acid test of company culture and values.
  — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
• Each of these seemed to satisfy the requirements of both quantum mechanics and special relativity — two of nature’s acid tests.
  — George Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 29 Feb. 2020
• With the departure of Bogaerts, the Sox faced an increasingly agitated fanbase that viewed the retention of Devers as an acid test of the team’s commitment to winning.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• The President has made the push to find common ground on infrastructure reform the acid test of his vow to bring the country together that anchored his 2020 campaign and is a centerpiece of his entire presidency.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 24 May 2021
• The experience lasts about five minutes and functions as a sort of Turrell acid test, during which the dazzling colors of light completely eliminate any sense of depth within each person’s visual field.
  — John Zotos, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2020
• Early next year, Google’s quantum computer will face its acid test in the form of an obscure computational problem that would take a classical computer billions of years to complete.
  — Jack Nicas, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
• Their return, however, presents an interesting acid test for relations between the Biden administration and the press.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2021
• Tuvalu is an acid test of leadership: If the international community allows an entire country to disappear from climate change, what hope will be left for anyone else?
  — Kausea Natano, Time, 28 Sep. 2022
• While ground testing has validated this approach, Ellis knows that the acid test will come with launch, particularly when the vehicle passes through the time period of maximum dynamic pressure, max q.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2022
• Rothberg was committed to the development of a molecular nucleic-acid test as accurate as PCR, as fast and simple as a home pregnancy test, and as inexpensive as an antibody or antigen option.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2020
• Typically the acid test to decide whether a financial instrument can be considered a security stems from two precedential interpretations from the Supreme Court concerning U.S. statutes written in the early 1930s.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 26 July 2022
• The police contract negotiations represent an acid test for Wu’s year-old administration.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024