criterion
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Back at Ratchford's office on the third day, he figured a way around the problematic income criterion.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
We also pushed a new criterion for things that were very obviously A.I., like those tells I mentioned earlier.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
With those prices, no wonder Luminate seems to have made popularity — and thus financial resources — a core criterion for eligibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
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
The first — and most obvious — criterion is that Connectors know lots of people.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Watt added: "We have learned a lot over the past five years and continue to improve and tighten our investment processes along with stricter criteria for potential investments as set out in our investment strategy."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
When pupils meet the criteria, project workers based at the school approach families to offer help in the form mediation, parenting support and financial guidance, among other things.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Space Force opened a window for proposals from more companies, but the extremely specific criteria and a challenging timeline kept other potential bidders out of the mix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The best-known category in recent years has been ESG—environmental, social, and governance—a slippery set of criteria to define, and one recently out of political and investor favor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The Beauty Minister tells royal listeners what criteria the ministers and the queen used to choose the favorite this season: disciplined, dutiful, responsible.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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The teachers and the boys alike know that they are never true criterions of progress, that they are seldom even fair representations of the actual course of study.
From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
For every provisional synthesis then the time must come when the apparition of truth can no longer command united allegiance, and criterions begin to encroach upon sanctions.
From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
Consequently it has become evident that the four criterions or standards of judgment by which the human mind reaches its conclusions are faulty and inaccurate.
From Foundations of World Unity by `Abdu'l-Bahá
First, they are no more the criterions of obeisance and respect, than mourning garments are the criterions of sorrow.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Thomas Clarkson
These, for the advantage of the public, ought to be universally the same throughout the kingdom; being the general criterions which reduce all things to the same or an equivalent value.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone
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