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adjective

ˈte-stiŋ How to pronounce testing (audio)
Definition of testingnext
as in challenging
requiring considerable physical or mental effort beginning rock climbers should choose a less testing route to the summit

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verb

present participle of test
1
as in sampling
to put (something) to a test please test this sample for the presence of lead

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as in trying
to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress all of these unnecessary questions are testing my patience

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Recent Examples of testing
Verb
Exercise also improves the capacity of mitochondria to process energy, in part by stress-testing the system. — Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 Bank of America economist Aditya Bhave says the markets are testing the Fed's pain threshold with the Nasdaq retreating 5% and credit spreads flaring a bit. — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026 Ukraine’s battlefield experiences may offer useful lessons for the Pentagon, which has spent decades developing and testing uncrewed aircraft for casualty evacuation missions without actually putting them into operation. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026 But assessing the audience a comic might draw is still only one way of testing whether something will work on screen. — Deputy Entertainment, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026 Companies are developing frameworks for measuring performance, optimizing interfaces, and testing whether biological computation can deliver consistent results across tasks. — Mike McRae 19, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026 The fear is recommending explicit content to someone who doesn’t wish to see it; OnlyFans just began testing discovery in the Netherlands, Blair told me, and will trial in more markets. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026 Providers typically rule out more common causes first, often testing for the following. — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2026 These early pieces synced with the bitter mindset of the Pictures Generation of the late 1970s and early ’80s, whose artists took up appropriation as a means of testing authorship and ownership. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for testing
  1. challenging
  2. sampling
  3. trying
  4. difficult
  5. examining
  6. stretching
  7. rigorous
  8. pushing
Adjective
  • Such calculations are part of a wider effort to understand why molecular simulations remain challenging.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
  • But the shift in college athletics has required an internal reconciling that is even more challenging than the external education.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of challenging
Verb
  • Interaction volume used to make this impossible, and sampling left the data open to question.
    — Jay Lee, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Young people overflow onto the patio, chatting and sampling each others’ orders.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of sampling
Verb
  • Hertzberg said he’s talked to investors who may be willing to buy these bonds at cheaper rates, given the crushing issue the funding is trying to solve.
    — Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
  • For this week, however, Morris is an evil stepsibling, the 49ers’ defensive coordinator trying to slow down Robinson and the Falcons’ offense.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of trying
Adjective
  • Jarman, who came in as the defending champion on the event, put together a more difficult routine but was nicked by judges for his execution.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • This is the last remaining game on the schedule that should be very difficult.
    — David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of difficult
Verb
  • The recurring shape adds another detail for researchers examining reports of unexplained objects near restricted locations.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Financial Supervisory Service Governor Lee Chan-jin said regulators were examining whether the IPO would require a review under the country's rules designed to protect minority shareholders.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of examining
Verb
  • Enter the extrait de parfum, a fragrance with concentration beginning at around 20 percent and stretching as high as 60 percent in some cases, versus typically 15 to 20 percent for an eau de parfum.
    — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The Fantasy Bra has a long history, stretching back 30 years.
    — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of stretching
Adjective
  • Like SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, many founders in tech have moonshot performance pay packages, in which rigorous stock price growth is tied to massive pay hurdles.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Every travel story is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of travel products.
    — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of rigorous
Verb
  • Because the switching happens thousands of times a second, the device can hold voltage steady, absorb a disturbance or operate in reverse, pushing power backward from batteries toward the grid.
    — Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Those cases were part of a broader movement pushing the limits of who is accountable for a mass shooting.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
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