- present participle of test.
testing
Example Sentences
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But the excavation process at Chemmani has moved slowly, testing the patience of families searching for answers about their disappeared loved ones.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Polymarket also has been trying to fix other problems stemming from the minimal testing it had done before rolling out new features.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Symptoms overlap with malaria, typhoid fever, and other diseases, meaning laboratory testing is necessary to confirm an infection.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Large-language models built by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic keep breaking out of their testing sandboxes.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
In other words, Ross knew perfectly well that he would not be able to confirm the story by testing it, yet he continued to believe it nevertheless.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
