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litmus test

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a coloring material (usually on a strip of paper) that turns red in acid solutions and blue in alkaline solutions

And that puts us at a standstill—unless we can develop a litmus test for what religion really is.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart

It is a litmus test for authentic God experience, and is—quite sadly—absent from much of our religious conversation today.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
"What's the litmus test here?
James Patterson -- 1st to Die
"Give it the litmus test," Langdon said.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
I'd spent some time as a kid wishing my name were Ashley or Katherine, if only because it would have made life simpler, but my mom liked to tell me that my name was actually a kind of litmus test.
Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride

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