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Treating the Lawson criterion as a single unchanging threshold overlooks physical processes that can substantially alter the requirements for ignition.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

She added that no single criterion is weighted above the others and that Aritzia’s employees reflect a range of backgrounds, ages, ethnicities and body types.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Speaking in the assembly on Monday, Givan said the context of pre-school places is "very different" compared to when the SDC criterion were introduced.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

"Coolness and summer comfort have become a property criterion in their own right," she said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

She remains Chandresh’s favorite, oft-referenced criterion for what the circus should be.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Stars are based on 40-some criteria that encompass patient experience surveys and a range of care metrics.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

That’s a tricky decision to make, because the criteria for impactful album sequencing are not at all the same for a live show.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

On top of technical performance metrics, there seems to be a new criteria to judge AI agents by: cuteness.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

Two consultant forensic psychiatrists had also concluded that a properly directed jury could find McIlwaine met the criteria necessary to establish loss of self-control.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

It also encourages housing authorities not only to screen all applicants’ criminal records, but to develop their own exclusion criteria.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

For a few words of this class, however, there are double plurals in use; as, automata or atomatons, criteria or criterions, parhelia or parhelions; and the plural of phenomenon appears to be always phenomena.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

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

"Yes, very pleasing; with this, and with a contemplation of the beautiful criterions of nature, I am happy."

From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke

There are two sound criterions for judging the correctness of vocal action,—first, the ease of the action, its naturalness, its flexibility.

From Resonance in Singing and Speaking by Thomas Fillebrown

The plural of phenomenon and criterion are phenomena, criteria, although criterions is sometimes employed.

From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel