metric
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The metric, which tech startups commonly use to signal their growth trajectory, is sometimes criticized as imprecise or even misleading, since it typically extrapolates a single month's sales across a full year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
"There's no single attribute or a single metric that we particularly go after," Cave explained.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
That is a surprising metric for deciding whether you want to fight or not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The amount of gold held in London vaults was 9,632 metric tons at the end of August, worth about $1.4 trillion, according to the London Bullion Market Association.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
I was learning from books what my father had learned by doing, but we worked together to master challenges of converting metric measurements to the equivalents in inches, feet, and yards.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
Vocabulary lists containing metric
This Week in Pop Culture: December 8 -14, 2018
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Measurement and Data, List 2
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for October 2–October 8, 2021
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