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And allowing the runner-up to pick up the baton after the winner withdrew would be a simple criterion for the party to move forward.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

However, the predetermined statistical criterion was not met in the primary endpoint.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026

Fewer Lyme disease cases were accrued over the study period than anticipated, and the pre-determined statistical criterion wasn’t met in the primary endpoint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

If we get to pot four and there is only one group which meets this criterion, pathway two will have to go into it.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025

Within months, pretty much everyone had given up Klebs’s criterion for Luce’s criteria.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

"Current clauses may refer to 'severe' or 'extreme' weather, but the definitions for these can vary and currently no providers go as far as to specify criteria such as maximum temperatures."

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

“That one piece of criteria is often the one that beats everything else.”

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

Two stars denote restaurants that do "excellent cooking" and are "worth a detour", according to Michelin's criteria.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Human rights advocates, many legal experts and some U.S. lawmakers disagree, saying that the strikes violate laws on the use of force and that the targeting criteria are unclear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Music fulfills all of these criteria, and is definitely hard-wired in the human brain.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

The multitude, we are told, after a few seasons, rose upon Hopkins, and resolved to subject him to one of his own criterions.

From Lives of the Necromancers by Godwin, William

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 Fillebrown, Thomas

These constants, while they vary somewhat with any particular oil or fat, are more applicable to the edible products and are criterions where any adulteration of fat or oil is suspected.

From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by Thomssen, E. G.

Certain rot-producing fungi impart to wood characteristic colors which thus become criterions of weakness.

From The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing by Record, Samuel J.

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 Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford