stress test
noun
: an electrocardiographic test of heart function before, during, and after a controlled period of increasingly strenuous exercise (as on a treadmill)
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Create a framework to demonstrate the potential to monetize a new product concept, and develop pragmatic prototypes that industry insiders can stress test.
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Dale Fickett, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Trump is using a defibrillator on a patient who not only passed a stress test with flying colors but is beating everyone else in the 100-yard dash.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 15 Apr. 2025
Casa performs annual stress tests on seed phrase backups.
—Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 6 Apr. 2025
Uncertainty is where those outcomes cannot be assigned numerical probabilities, but they can still be modeled and analyzed by using stress tests, history, storytelling, scenario analysis, and other tools.
—Felix Salmon, Axios, 8 Apr. 2025
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Dale Fickett, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Trump is using a defibrillator on a patient who not only passed a stress test with flying colors but is beating everyone else in the 100-yard dash.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 15 Apr. 2025
Casa performs annual stress tests on seed phrase backups.
—Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 6 Apr. 2025
Uncertainty is where those outcomes cannot be assigned numerical probabilities, but they can still be modeled and analyzed by using stress tests, history, storytelling, scenario analysis, and other tools.
—Felix Salmon, Axios, 8 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for stress test
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“Stress test.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stress%20test. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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