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Later in the morning, questions about the family’s charitable giving led to a testy and awkward exchange.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

“Fontes got testy with them,” said one participant on the call who asked not to be identified.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

In sometimes testy exchanges with OpenAI's lawyers, and indeed the judge, he has argued Altman and fellow executive Greg Brockman "stole a charity" by pursuing profit-generating initiatives he felt went against its founding mission.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

His second day of testimony in federal court in Oakland, California grew testy at times, as OpenAI's lawyers sought to portray the Tesla tycoon as an unreliable narrator of the company's history.

From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026

Already his teacher was getting testy as more pupils vanished out of the classroom to go to work in the fields now that the weather had really and truly turned toward warm.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

Exchanges at the Supreme Court are getting testier, as one this week between Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Ketanji Brown Jackson attests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

It can check to see if Cheryl is downloading bulk cloud data or run a sentiment analysis on Tom’s emails to see if he’s getting testier over time.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2022

Aside from the tone—everyone involved seemed a bit testier than usual—not much was new.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2019

And the ongoing Netflix fight got even testier this year with the streaming service pulling its slate to protest the festival's rules requiring that all films in competition have theatrical release in France.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2018

I’m crankier and testier than I should be with someone who just saved my life.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

Microsoft, the first major tech company to release a paper making such a bold claim, stirred one of the tech world’s testiest debates: Is the industry building something akin to human intelligence?

From New York Times ● May 16, 2023

Even our testiest writers knew she was on their side.

From Golf Digest ● Dec. 16, 2019

Now with relations between Washington and Ankara going through one of their testiest periods in recent memory, he may find it even tougher to get those dual messages across when he visits on Wednesday.

From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2016

He will simplify his schedule in order to make room for America’s oldest and testiest orchestra.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 27, 2016

Strikingly, some of the testiest exchanges of the evening came on issues where the differences among the candidates were largely a matter of degree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2015