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
The unifying criterion for dementia is that the person has lost independence, Gomperts explains.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 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
Measured by the standards established by Warburg, most pesticides meet the criterion of the perfect carcinogen too well for comfort.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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He says trial participants need to meet strict criteria before they are given the green light to start taking the real drug or a placebo.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The rules also allow schools to continue using religious criteria for admissions and scholarships, as long as they don’t base those decisions on ancestry or ethnicity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
It lets institutions continue to support underprivileged students as long as those efforts use “race-neutral criteria such as family income, geographic location, first-generation status, individual hardship, military family status, or academic achievement.”
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026
Under the legislation, ultra-fast fashion will be determined according to two criteria: the volume of clothing placed on the market and the cost of repairing garments relative to their purchase price.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
It's absurd that we are free to determine our method and criteria for gleaning, but not the number of gleanings we accomplish.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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Other schools are not criterions for this ramshackle establishment, anyhow.
From Mary Louise by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
With him the criterions of merit are propriety, taste, expediency, and fitness.
From The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper
Scent, in Jack's opinion, was one of the criterions of a gentleman.
From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees
It is this sentiment which causes Freethought to take the form of Secularism, and exchanges the verbal distractions of conflicting creeds for the clear criterions of moral truth.
From The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? by George Jacob Holyoake
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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