How to Use beta test in a Sentence

beta test

noun
  • The plan is to kick off beta tests by the end of this year.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 2024-10-02
  • Bloomberg News scored a seat in a closed beta test last month.
    — Bloomberg News, The Denver Post, 2019-06-09
  • Amazon couldn’t even find enough people to beta test the game for free.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 2020-10-07
  • Based on our beta tests, the answer, for now, is: somewhat.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 2018-01-30
  • The beta test is available to everyone and is free to play.
    — Deb Amlen, New York Times, 2023-04-10
  • Spotify first launched a beta test for Blend playlists in June.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 2021-09-01
  • In the second beta test, players can replay the content from the first beta test.
    — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 2025-01-09
  • Koji has been in beta test mode for the last year but just opened up to the public in October.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 2020-12-27
  • Uber is now beta testing a feature that allows users to wait longer for their ride in exchange for a lower charge.
    — Mckenna Moore, Fortune, 2018-06-19
  • The Sound of Vinyl is aimed at them, and Resnikoff is proud of how the store has performed in beta tests.
    — Robert Levine, Billboard, 2017-10-12
  • The open beta tested five different maps and many different game modes across the two weekends.
    — Anshel Sag, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Want to join the iOS 15.1 beta test and see for yourself what the issue is?
    — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 2021-10-13
  • According to Garmin, the new mode was developed and beta tested with wheelchair users.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 2023-08-30
  • Since launching in a private beta test last year, the app has been used to analyze about $2 billion in properties.
    — Dallas News, 2022-05-11
  • That's one of the primary reasons for Zero Point—to serve as beta test to see how this new medium could even work.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2014-02-19
  • Meta said Horizon Worlds users have already built thousands of worlds within the app since a private beta test began last year.
    — Rachel Metz, CNN, 2021-12-09
  • Zoom launched a beta test of a new integration with Cerner’s EHR.
    — Mario Aguilar, STAT, 2021-12-05
  • Provide assurance for future releases by getting early feedback as part of a beta test.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But SpaceX’s own beta tests have shown the technology can reach speeds of 17Mbps and even power video calls.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 2025-06-04
  • After 18 months of coding and building the app, Plunjr launched a beta test in December.
    — Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 2020-04-27
  • No release date at the moment, but an iOS beta test is currently live for those in Malaysia, with Australia soon to follow.
    — Michael Koczwara, The Hollywood Reporter, 2020-04-09
  • Veteran players know the importance of these two roles, but their necessity can be lost on newer ones — an issue that quickly cropped up in the first weekend of the open beta test.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Culver's government was one of four to partner with Webster's team at IU to beta test the Index this summer.
    — London Gibson, Indianapolis Star, 2019-11-13
  • Among the first concerts on Beatday will be Amazing Show, a popular indie band from Taiwan which will play a half hour set as a closed beta test.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 2021-09-01
  • This year, the Alaska Airlines Classic has implemented the use of a shot clock as somewhat of a beta test to speed up the game and prevent teams from stalling as much.
    — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-01-20
  • Revolve has been beta testing the technology with 50 percent of Revolve shoppers for months and officially debuts Build a Look next week.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The 2026-27 FAFSA is already available to a limited group of students in a beta test.
    — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Why would Boy Kavalier risk his multibillion-dollar prototypes — beta tests for a plan to allow the richest people on the planet to live forever in bodies like Wendy’s — on such a dangerous mission?
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Early impressions of that game’s beta test have been extremely positive, and with a contemporary setting closer to Call of Duty’s Modern Warfare series.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Now that beta test vehicles have been created, the company will use those to validate ride quality, handling, braking, thermodynamics, aerodynamics and sound insulation calibrations and engineering.
    — Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025

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