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The campaign is a test drive, and we want a gut check.

Good gut check to see where the Magic really are right now.

"It was about looking each other in the eye and having a gut check within," he said.

So we're all going to have to do a little gut check to decide how bad we want this.

"And we responded to the first half of that gut check."

Jack did a little gut check before posing the next question.

On September 27, the world's third largest oil company announced the results of an economic gut check.

It's also a major gut check game for both squads.

This is another way for hosts to do a gut check against potential guests.

I'm proud of our team because they just had a gut check tonight."

Someone had warned me that swinging is a gut check.

It definitely was our gut check of the season so far."

But if you're still feeling unsettled, it might be time for a financial gut check, no matter how old you are.

Pre-approval is a good gut check on your price range for a home.

It was what he thought of as a gut check, though that term hardly applied here.

But every contender must pass the gut check, prove able and ready.

But here are some generalities that pass my own gut check.

"There was significant demand for a gut check on students' reading, writing and math skills," he says.

Mourning described what the Nets were going through as a "gut check."

I really felt that we were, at that moment, having a gut check.

Senior management must do a real "gut check" before launching a quality service initiative.

And then they went out and won a gut check of a game against Boston last night to even that series.

Seattle went through a raucous civic gut check on these issues.

This time the gut check is on two fronts.

"This is definitely a gut check for us," Roethlisberger said.