frame of reference

noun as in standards for judging or deciding

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I didn’t know how much I was learning because I had no frame of reference for any of it.

The frames of reference were, in retrospect, incompatible.

If Leno had something to offer beyond an outdated frame of reference, he’d have a streaming series like O’Brien or Letterman.

At that time, their frame of reference came mostly from online images.

But something even more momentous was about to shift the playwright’s frame of reference.

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