metric
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But an even more important metric for the Federal Reserve is core PCE, which excludes the more volatile categories of food and energy.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026
Ferrari reveals its new EV, the UN shares an alternative metric to GDP, and Europe won’t embrace A/C despite deadly heatwaves.
From Slate • May 30, 2026
Anthropic is on track next month to hit $50 billion in “annualized revenue”—a metric startups use that employs short-term sales to forecast a yearly figure.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
However, another metric investors were monitoring for AI traction fell flat.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
The metric system merely completed a process that had begun with the invention of the telescope, which definitively destroyed the idea that the universe was made on the same scale as man.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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