measuring stick
Example Sentences
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The ultimate aim of Best Companies for the Future is to offer a useful measuring stick, not a crystal ball.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Snead, who has a history of finding productive receivers that others miss — among them Cooper Kupp and Puka Nacua — is skeptical of the 40 as a measuring stick.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
Similarly, the dispute would shave no more than a few tenths off gross domestic product, the official measuring stick of the economy, they estimate.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026
GB played their own powerplay in response and made full use of it, a furious double sweep by both Mouat and Dodds earning a decisive four points after some deliberation with the measuring stick.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
Thus the next several days were to be spent using a plumb line and a measuring stick to obtain the relative positions of all atoms in a single nucleotide.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
