criterion
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“My first criterion is: Has the hospice been around for longer than 15 years?”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026
First, we got a “speedy deletion” criterion for A.I. images, allowing editors not to spend a whole week on a deletion discussion.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026
However, Pfizer said it is confident in the vaccine’s potential, noting that this criterion was met in the second pre-specified analysis and the clinically meaningful efficacy demonstrated in the trial.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Before the rule took effect in early April, only a third of small-cap listing applicants sought to qualify under Nasdaq’s profitability criterion.
From Barron's • Dec. 3, 2025
For most of the twentieth century, medicine had been using the same primitive diagnostic criterion of sex formulated by Klebs way back in 1876.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing criterion
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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100 SAT words Beginning with "C"
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