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metrics

noun as in prosody

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Metrics show Canada's wildfires, a natural part of its vast boreal forest, have worsened in recent years.

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Anyone who actually listened to what the girl said knows that, on traditional metrics like being right and making sense, she cleaned his clock.

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“The economy is back on track,” the White House proclaimed last week, asserting that, among other metrics, “retail sales are booming” and inflation is falling.

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Bisignano has been issuing self-congratulatory press releases boasting about improvements to customer service metrics at the agency — for example, phone answer times cut to an average of six minutes, down from 30 minutes last year.

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Department of Education data, looks at three key metrics: the net price of a degree or certificate at both public and private community and career colleges; the median earnings of former students 10 years after enrollment; and how much higher those earnings are above those of a typical high school graduate in California.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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