How to Use testing ground in a Sentence

testing ground

noun
  • The great news is that social is a great testing ground.
    Stephanie Schafer, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Esports could serve as a testing ground for new cyborg sports.
    John Cairney, Sportico.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • That was a really good testing ground what might be plausible for the next step in Khanate.
    Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 25 May 2023
  • Evans says that as a first demonstration, CryoHub will be a testing ground.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2019
  • High-stakes environments are a kind of testing ground for this idea.
    Simin Cai, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The campaign trail will prove the ultimate testing ground, speaking to Emhoff’s values as much as his sense of style.
    Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Workers built barracks, roads and piers, setting the stage for the island to become the Navy’s premier weapons testing ground.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The sole ownership of Las Vegas allows Liberty to use the event as a testing ground for ways to grow the business.
    Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Lenovo has used the ThinkBook Plus models as a testing ground for all sorts of new display paradigms in the past.
    Brian Westover, PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Sleepaway camp can be the perfect testing ground for helping parents let go and let their children grow.
    Emily Edlynn, Parents, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In 2014, the village became the testing ground for Mr. Civantos’s acequia restoration project.
    Constant Méheut, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • The Dallas-area store is to be a testing ground for Sam's Club's latest features and technology.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Ukraine has become a giant testing ground for drones from all over the world - the United States, Germany, Poland, and other partner countries.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
  • In some cases, the markets have provided a testing ground for in-store technologies.
    Annie Palmer, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Almost as if the Triassic was a testing ground that resulted in the largest dinosaurs that ever lived in the Cretaceous.
    Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 26 July 2023
  • Many saw this limited release as a testing ground for a thinner device.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The West Bank has long been seen as a testing ground for Israeli surveillance technology and tactics.
    WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
  • At the same time, Ukraine has become a testing ground for an array of air-defense systems, according to the Ukrainian military.
    Marc Santora, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Tales from this testing ground suggest that AI agents will be able to do impressive things in the near future that will make digital life much easier.
    Will Knight, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Over the course of these exchanges, Central Asia has emerged as a testing ground for security instruments that Beijing has yet to use elsewhere.
    Temur Umarov, Foreign Affairs, 30 June 2023
  • The station functions as a testing ground for technologies that could enable long-duration human travel to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
    Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The region, home to nearly 700 million people, is often seen as a testing ground for China’s attempts to expand its power.
    Huong Le Thu, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Bencic used the events in Luxembourg and France as a testing ground — not just to see where her game was at, but also how things would work logistically with a baby daughter in tow.
    Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • But, this is a testing ground for innovation that could permeate the company.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2023
  • On the heels of a major leap in player tracking that utilizes iPhone cameras to map a true recreation of on-field events, the English Premier League is once again set to be a testing ground for a first-of-its-kind technology.
    Ben Dowsett, WIRED, 3 Dec. 2024
  • In Newport Beach, the chemicals in shallow groundwater were left by a former testing ground for missile systems.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Between your average car or a large Class 8 truck, companies across the country are using Texas as a testing ground for this new technology, which could change how freight is hauled.
    Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
  • The idea is to create a testing ground for new tech that could improve patients’ health while making hospital processes more efficient.
    Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Many have found an outlet in sports—for decades a testing ground for gender equality in the Islamic Republic, where women were not even allowed in the same stadium as men.
    Forough Alaei, TIME, 13 July 2024
  • Jones and Bowen say that universities offer a live testing ground for many generative AI use cases.
    Emilia David, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2024

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