How to Use gut check in a Sentence

gut check

noun
  • The conference was meant to be a kind of gut check.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • That gut check works for most decisions.
    — Vinay Kuruvila, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • In the absence of data, the gut check sometimes still wins.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But a week full of gut checks resulted in the biggest win in club history thus far.
    — Idaho Statesman, 21 June 2026
  • Music that questions your psyche and health, worries for your ecosystem, gut checks your self-worth and pride, and keeps you lifted.
    — Ian Brennan, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But Eilish also used the opportunity to send a proverbial gut check to some attendees of the event.
    — Mikelle Street, Them., 30 Oct. 2025
  • Probably not but do gut check your situational awareness.
    — Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The Niners’ 2025 campaign is going to require frequent gut checks, with sky-high peaks that always seem countered with sad-sack lows.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
  • At least half a dozen members of Congress are at risk of losing their seats in Tuesday’s primaries, as the midterm campaign begins with a frenzied gut check on voter anger.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The so-far-modest gut check has essentially taken the S & P 500 to a near-touch of its 50-day moving average after an unusually long stretch holding above it.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The schedule provides a few early gut checks (starting with Miami and Texas A&M) followed by what should be a long runway to fine-tune for December and January.
    — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But running such a gut check against every single sentence or reference an LLM offers would be overwhelming—especially given that increasing efficiency is a major reason to use an LLM.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Mountain View's season got a gut check last year in a lopsided loss to Open state champion Liberty, but the Toros return one of the best passing duos in Arizona in quarterback Brady Goodman and wide receiver Talan Arnett.
    — Richard Obert, AZCentral.com, 23 Aug. 2025

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