How to Use stress test in a Sentence

stress test

noun
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  • UConn passed the first stress test, but wasn’t able to bring home the win.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 9 Sep. 2022
  • That did not appear to hold it back in the stress tests.
    — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 29 June 2018
  • Your doctor will choose the stress test that is best for you and your heart.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Their imaging looked like what’s seen in a stress test.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 10 June 2024
  • And varying the scenarios in the stress test, that’s a tool that can be used.
    — WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • The scope of his game works as a stress test for opposing bigs.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • But the war has given a stress test to the American Right, too.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In the stress test of the pandemic, Democrats proved this charge correct.
    — The Editors, National Review, 25 Oct. 2022
  • All the biggest American banks passed this round of the stress tests for the first time last year.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2018
  • In June, Aluma flew to Houston to watch a new cable go through stress tests.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The affair of the documents may prove something of a stress test.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Few things stress test wheels like a van driver in a hurry.
    — Alex Goy, Ars Technica, 22 May 2024
  • The pandemic has been a stress test for us all, but the results can tell us what needs to be fixed.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
  • And this week on Face the Nation: democracy stress test.
    — CBS News, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Gray’s initial stress test came in the opening inning, when a single and a walk led to a jam.
    — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 24 June 2019
  • Earlier this year the Fed had already made some changes to stress tests.
    — The Economist, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Before June 1, the stress test was at an interest rate of 4.79%.
    — Laura Hensley, refinery29.com, 18 June 2021
  • Under Powell, the Fed has also been working to make the stress tests less of a black box for bankers.
    — Jesse Hamilton, Bloomberg.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Super Bowl is a stress test for new Airbnb other short-tern rental rules.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
  • As for my checkup, Saxon ordered up a stress test for me, just to stay on top of things.
    — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The stress tests reflect the brisk growth in corporate debt in recent years.
    — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Fed to release second round of results of bank stress tests.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2018
  • That’s what the Bank of England wants to examine in its latest stress test.
    — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • My stress test of compositing four video tracks has brought many a video app to its knees in the past with stop-and-go playback.
    — PCMAG, 30 June 2024
  • But then the economy snapped back far quicker than banks or the stress test imagined.
    — David Benoit, WSJ, 24 June 2021
  • TikTok isn’t the only large tech platform to submit to an EU stress test.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 19 July 2023
  • And at the sheriff's department, Michael was given a voice stress test.
    — CBS News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • This game is a stress test that will tell us how different these Ravens truly are.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The phone ran for an impressive 16 hours and 5 minutes in our stress test, which requires it to stream an HD video over Wi-Fi with the screen set at its full brightness.
    — PCMAG, 9 July 2024
  • Eleven volunteers who were unfamiliar to the dogs were put through a stress test involving public speaking and arithmetic while samples of their underarm sweat were gathered on pieces of cloth.
    — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 25 July 2024

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