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Noun
Because of the variation in the category, our testers rated three hair wavers as top options for different results (and for their compatibility with various hair textures and lengths) rather than one best overall hair waver.—Claire Sullivan, Footwear News, 3 June 2025 Our testers nailed down top picks for all those needs and more.—Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 2 June 2025 Today’s Difficulty Our testers rate each puzzle out of 5 according to its difficulty.—New York Times Games, New York Times, 1 June 2025 Our testers have done the leg work (pun intended)—biking up and down the West Coast on mountain bikes, across the Cascades on gravel bikes, embarking on multi-day adventures in the heat of the Utah high desert—to find the best solutions for your hip pack, riding pack/vest, and frame bag needs.—Nikki Rohan, Outside Online, 23 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for tester
Word History
Etymology
Noun (2)
Middle English, headboard of a bed, canopy, from Anglo-French, from teste head, from Late Latin testa skull, from Latin, shell
Noun (3)
modification of Middle French testart, from teston
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