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Situations that get bundled together under this rubric include airlines cutting flights, Asian governments requiring home-working to save fuel, rising EV sales and high energy costs sapping overall economic activity.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

“It’s about transparency. It’s objectivity. It’s being able to identify the conflicts of interest, mitigate or eliminate the ones that are substantial, and then disclose—because our federal securities rubric is a disclosure-based regime,” Dahiya says.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

“If I did this for your client, I’ll have to do it for every single defendant who was indicted when Mr. Essayli was acting under the rubric of acting U.S. attorney, correct?”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025

The second question on this foolproof rubric is, “Does the shark movie have a necessary degree of camp that both reveres and respects that it is, indeed, a shark movie?”

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2025

Below is a rubric for evaluating multicultural music material including the content of the text, notation, and any recording.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin