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criterion

[krahy-teer-ee-uhn] / kraɪˈtɪər i ən /


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“If technology becomes the ultimate criterion, the human person risks being reduced to data, a cog in a machine or a commodity,” he wrote.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

“My first criterion is: Has the hospice been around for longer than 15 years?”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 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

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

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

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




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