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Noun
After tasting each cake, each tester chose their overall favorite.—Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 1 Jan. 2026 Our staff and testers A beauty product is a personal purchase.—Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 1 Jan. 2026 Pour batter into the Bundt pan and bake for 45 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025 Instead, our testers’ ratings varied some depending on their location and typical weather.—Adam Trenkamp, Outside, 27 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tester
Word History
Etymology
Noun (2)
Middle English, headboard of a bed, canopy, from Anglo-French, from teste head, from Late Latin testa skull, from Latin, shell
Noun (3)
modification of Middle French testart, from teston
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