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put to the test
Try or check out something or someone, as in This tall grass will put our new lawnmower to the test, or Let's put Harry to the test and see if he knows the last 20 World Series winners. [Mid-1600s]
Example Sentences
The heat and humidity of India's World Cup is where this will really be put to the test.
Cyril Ramaphosa wants to mend his nation's fractured relationship with the US - and his famous negotiating skills will be put to the test as he tries to win over the world's most powerful leader.
She eventually finds her own cynicism put to the test as she is not so much torn between the ultra-rich, impossibly suave Pedro Pascal and her struggling cater-waiter ex Chris Evans as she is simply running the numbers while attempting to calculate for the intangibles of romance.
That position could soon be put to the test in councils including Leicestershire and Worcestershire, where it fell short of a majority despite becoming the largest party.
Carney said the G7 summit hosted by Canada in June would be "very important" in deciding the future path of the global trade war, adding it would "put to the test" whether the group of the world's seven most advanced economies - which includes the US - was still the most "like-minded of like-minded countries".
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