rubric

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“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

Ultimately, the dog is matched with an adopter using the same considered rubric, and the happily ever after ensues.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 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

That typically means anything that falls under the rubric of traditional medical, dental, and vision services, as well as the costs of prescription drugs.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2025

The generic rubric ‘theists’ covers Jewish rabbis from eighteenth-century Poland, witch-burning Puritans from seventeenth-century Massachusetts, Aztec priests from fifteenth-century Mexico, Sufi mystics from twelfth-century Iran, tenth-century Viking warriors, second-century Roman legionnaires, and first-century Chinese bureaucrats.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari