criterion
Example Sentences
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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
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
There must be ways of putting nucleic acids together that will function far better—by any criterion we choose—than any human being who has ever lived.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing criterion
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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100 SAT words Beginning with "C"
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