gut check

noun

1. a pause to assess the state, progress, or condition of something such as an enterprise or institution

Example Sentences

“October has brought a spooky gut check after an unusually calm stretch,” said Keith Lerner, chief market strategist at Truist.

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It felt, at the time, like a big-time gut check for the new Big Ten team on the block.

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Their popularity has even gripped Wall Street, where investors and strategists increasingly rely on their odds as a kind of gut check.

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“My gut check is, this is bad,” said Todd Sorensen, a professor in the economics department at UC Riverside.

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The past few weeks of stock market whipsawing have been a gut check for internet communities that swelled in numbers during the usually excellent markets of the past five years.

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