metric
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There was no public announcement of a rule or metric change at Spotify in March.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Daniel Zhao, Glassdoor’s chief economist, says this metric is a window into whether workers believe they “can speak up, if the organization is transparent and the speed of communications” between different parts of the organization.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 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
Larger rockets like SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, which can put almost 64 metric tons into low-Earth-orbit, can keep the cost per kilogram of cargo at about $1,500.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
The current best estimate for Earth’s weight is 5.9725 billion trillion metric tons, a difference of only about 1 percent from Cavendish’s finding.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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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