trial run
a preliminary performance or test of something, as of the operation of a ship or the effectiveness of a play.
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The pandemic gave people who were reluctant about it a sort of trial run.
The Pandemic Moved Classrooms Outside. Let’s Keep It That Way. | lwhelan | August 18, 2021 | Outside OnlineIf Australia allows her to participate, she may benefit from a trial run for potentially bigger games ahead.
This WNBA All-Star Team Will Have Extra Incentive To Win. Who Should Be On It? | Howard Megdal | June 22, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightOperators at a Pfizer plant outside Kalamazoo hoped the trial run could provide quick validation of the company’s gamble on a newfangled mRNA technology.
Inside Pfizer’s race to produce the world’s biggest supply of covid vaccine | Christopher Rowland | June 16, 2021 | Washington PostThe plans for the musical — which, before the coronavirus shut down American theater, was to have had a trial run in Chicago — represent a wild pivot for a Shakespearean company.
The Port wound up dismantling its project after a year-and-a-half trial run.
Lessons From the Year in Surveillance Tech Debacles | Jesse Marx | December 28, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
“We had a pretty good trial run in 2008,” said one person close to the governor.
In its playfulness, this trial run for revolution set the tone for what was to follow.
After a six week trial run, Fox has chosen not to continue forward with the daytime talk show.
Kris Jenner's Talk Show Gets Cancelled, Miley Cyrus's New Song Leaks Online | Culture Team | August 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFor the State of Palestine, as UNESCO recognizes it, the application for the church was a trial run.
If Ross had believed that his pre-trial-run cramming had been a rigorous business, he was soon to laugh at that estimation.
The Time Traders | Andre Norton"Come on, Ned," he said to his chum early one evening after Mr. Swift had said he was too tired to go out on a trial run.
Tom Swift and his Motor-boat | Victor AppletonYou can say I have gone out on a trial run, which won't be a lie, only an understatement.
Ordinary sort of writing, rather unformed and sprawly, but after a trial run Micky managed a very presentable copy of it.
The Phantom Lover | Ruby M. AyresThe idea was voted excellent, and the trial run in Russia gave complete satisfaction.
British Dictionary definitions for trial run
a test drive in a vehicle to assess its performance
a test or rehearsal of something new or untried to assess its effectiveness
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