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Testing ground   /tˈɛstɪŋ graʊnd/   Listen
Testing ground

noun
1.
A region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation.  Synonym: laboratory.  "Pakistan is a laboratory for studying the use of American troops to combat terrorism"






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"Testing ground" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hinduism? Of course I am thinking particularly of the educated native Hindu community that has sprung up during the century just closed. The dynamic of Christianity, which it is our task to test, implies a measure of conscious and intelligent approval. Japan is another such testing ground. Indeed the only large fields where Christianity is presented to bodies of non-Christian men able to yield approval or refuse it on intelligent grounds, of which they are conscious, are India and Japan. In China ...
— New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century - A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments • John Morrison



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