test run

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Your early 60s is a test run for retirement, U.S.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025

Instead, it’s a test run for everything that will happen next year.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2025

We were on the Xcel for its “shakedown cruise,” a final test run new ships often go through before making their public debuts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

The pair had a test run last year, when they travelled 1,500 kilometres on kite skis in Greenland for a month in June/July, collecting ice samples.

From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025

When the kidding was done, however, the men gave the motor sledge a test run.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong