- present participle of test.
testing
Example Sentences
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Because the specific yeast beta-glucan used in the study is already commercially available as a food-grade supplement, researchers believe it could move relatively quickly into clinical testing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Hot weather is arriving earlier, lasting longer and increasingly testing our school buildings that were designed and built in a past climate.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Sailing from Busan New Port, the container ship -- the "PanStar Acro" -- will sail to Europe via the Arctic, testing whether a route opened by melting sea ice can be commercially viable.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Neither E. coli nor salmonella has been discovered during daily testing, the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
As far as Newton was concerned the only worthwhile hypotheses were the ones that could be tested: and if they survived testing they ceased to be hypotheses.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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