stringent test
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstringentandtest
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stringent
adjective
uk/ˈstrɪn.dʒənt/us/ˈstrɪn.dʒənt/
having a very severe effect, or being ...
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test
noun[C]
uk/test/us/test/
a way of discovering, by questions or practical activities, what someone knows, or what someone or something can do or ...
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This demonstration provides astringenttestof the hydration force interpretation above.
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Perhaps surprisingly, now we reject the transparent view even with the lessstringenttestagainst the general alternative.
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Thus, such measurements could constitute a verystringenttestof our quantitative understanding of this effect.
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To this end, experimental psychopathologists are interested in showing that novel cognitive impairments in schizophrenia pass a morestringenttest.
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Respectively, the results in each table represent an increasinglystringenttestof the political contagion hypothesis.
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Nonetheless, having a different reporter of adjustment than of coping and socialization is the morestringenttestof mediation.
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However, that correct performance is not astringenttest.
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The fixed ranking places the morestringenttestuniversally higher.
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Fortunately, a far more extensive data set is available that puts the model to a morestringenttest.
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In short, rather than subjecting their hypothesis to the moststringenttest, they have chosen, according to their own words and selection of case studies, the easiest one.
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I therefore devised a morestringenttest.
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We performed a morestringenttestto see whether a distinctive error pattern emerged when we restricted consideration only to those children who made at least one error.
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Larger data sets would provide a morestringenttestof the model.
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Use of animate nouns thus provides a morestringenttestof the hypothesis that diminutives aid gender categorization.
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To have a licence to drive a public service vehicle for 40 years, one has to conform to the law and take astringenttest.
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That is perhaps a morestringenttestthan reasonable grounds for suspicion, but it is the same principle.
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If someone were to buy that vehicle and repair it, that vehicle could not then be taxed until it had been through astringenttest.
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This is, rightly, astringenttest, and no decision to use this power is taken lightly.
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Applicants for unallotted factories have now to pass a verystringenttestof essentiality before they are accepted.
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A far morestringenttestshould be operated and, what is more, should be operated at intervals.
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