decisive test
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Those were supposed to get etched last week—only for Anthropic to undergo a decisive test for its oft-professed ethical boundaries.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2026
“And now a decisive test has been completed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Legal scholars say the efforts amount to a decisive test of the criminal justice system.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
Now the administration is facing a potentially decisive test of whether Mr. Biden’s rhetoric will be translated into meaningful action.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021
More to the point, the bomb program was moving toward a concrete conclusion, with plans laid for a decisive test in the desert.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
