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 azaleas will be the acid test.
    — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • The acid test will only come with upcoming flights.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Self-translation is the acid test for one’s writing.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The 2025 season could very well be an acid test of sorts for Purdy.
    — Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • An orange laminate kitchen straight out of an electric Kool-Aid acid test.
    — Martha McPhee, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The acid test is whether India will use green approaches in 2050.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Batman sits square in that company, the proverbial middle manager at the acid test.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 Jan. 2022
  • This really is the acid test as to whether OSU’s run defense has improved.
    — oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the acid test will only come on upcoming flights, beginning Sunday with the vehicle's tenth test flight.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • But Berlin’s European Film Market will be the industry’s true acid test.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Additional sugar and acid tests are planned to confirm whether the liquid contains apple-specific compounds, like malic acid.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 15 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • This was a place and time in history of tremendous creativity that grew out of the acid test parties, the beatnik poets, and the Summer Of Love.
    — Brian Halligan, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The acid test of whether California is getting bang for its taxpayers’ buck is the fact that former Californians have voted with their feet in droves.
    — Jim Doti, Oc Register, 8 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The police contract negotiations represent an acid test for Wu’s year-old administration.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
  • 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

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