- plural of criterion.
criteria
Example Sentences
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A put option gives the buyer the right to sell the underlying security under the same criteria.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Students left behind say they are facing bureaucratic problems, including confusing evacuation criteria.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
In Michigan, narrow criteria and confusion over eligibility have prevented exonerees from getting paid.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
In the farming community of Gilroy, Amazon’s project was approved with a single signature—by the town’s community-development director—because it met zoning criteria set 45 years ago for industrial development along a freeway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
But new scales of achievement, for example the Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test, had emerged as criteria by which to judge.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
