metric
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When thieves snatched 12 metric tons of KitKats in transit from Italy to Poland, the company capitalized with some free publicity for one of its most famous brands.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Newcastle coal futures have jumped above $150 a metric ton, up 16% on month and their highest since the start of the Middle East conflict, Oh says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
There was no public announcement of a rule or metric change at Spotify in March.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
The team's most important advance was finding a way to define the neutral axis using only the geometry of the color metric.
From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026
One hundred million metric tons of plastic were being produced in the mid.1980s.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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