proving ground

Kennedy is hopeful that the Celtic Challenge, a cross-border club competition with teams from Scotland, Ireland and Wales that launched in 2023, can provide a proving ground to rival England's PWR in time.

Los Angeles, with its murals and multigenerational families, has become the proving ground for fear politics.

The loft was also a short walk to CBGB, soon to become the proving ground of New York’s punk revolution and the Heads’ primary live performance venue at the start of their career.

It’s also been a proving ground for drag queens not only in America, but all over the world.

But he lacked a paper trail, or a history with the conservative Federalist Society or Ronald Reagan’s Department of Justice, which served as proving grounds for the rising generation of Republican lawyers.