They will put the software through many trial runs before putting it on the market.
We will have to give the machine a trial run.
Recent Examples on the WebOver the next two days, the U.S. military and humanitarian groups will aim to load three to five trucks from the pier and send them into Gaza as a trial run, said Gen. Charles Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 16 May 2024 Burt Rutan, an aeronautical engineer, said that other test pilots who flew the craft in trial runs cut their flying time short; the turbulence the plane experienced wore them out.—Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 8 May 2024 The tax, which is on a trial run for more than two dozen peak travel days through July 14, only applies to those 20 million day-trippers, who must pay €5 to visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site.—Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024 SpaceX managed to double the length of the flight during November’s trial run.—Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024 In January 2023, Hughes — who has been teaching first grade at Hanby for 12 years — did a trial run of her new program.—Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024 My advice is to do a trial run by placing everything necessary for your meal on the table to determine what space (if any) is left.—Mary Carol Garrity, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024 Habba was asked to give a trial run outside the presence of the jury of what the testimony would involve, which the judge said had to bequestions and responses that would not allow Trump to opine on the underlying issues in the case.—Mark Berman, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024 Ultimately Kyle and Zach found the smoker the team purchased, and it was put through its paces in a trial run in Zach’s Overland Park driveway in early May.—Kimberly Winter Stern, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
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