measuring stick
Example Sentences
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It is the playbook we’ve all become familiar with—sizing up the ethical makeup of our fellow man by using the worst thing they’ve ever said as the measuring stick.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
Similarly, the dispute would shave no more than a few tenths off gross domestic product, the official measuring stick of the economy, they estimate.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026
GB played their own powerplay in response and made full use of it, a furious double sweep by both Mouat and Dodds earning a decisive four points after some deliberation with the measuring stick.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
A major measuring stick lies ahead on Saturday, as USC opens its Big Ten slate against the program whose success Riley hopes to emulate.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024
Thus the next several days were to be spent using a plumb line and a measuring stick to obtain the relative positions of all atoms in a single nucleotide.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
