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rubric

[roo-brik] / ˈru brɪk /


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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

On Substack recently, Nicholas Thompson, the CEO of the Atlantic, shared a writer’s account of using Claude to build a custom editing rubric while instructing the A.I.,

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 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

"I believe Harry falls very much into that rubric," Dolan said, "because the scapegoat is not only the one who's perceived to be the villain of the family, but their truth-telling is perceived as betrayal."

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

Take a moment to read the rubric below and see where you fit in.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

I have also seen the effect of replacing state test scores, grades and attendance as admission rubrics for middle school and high school with lottery numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The team also drew upon Berkeley Lab's expertise and instrumentation to fully characterize their microbial factories by many different rubrics.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023

Articulate how rubrics provide insight into the final outcomes of an assignment.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

Schools are now still using the same district-mandated rubrics to assess student skills that we were using before the pandemic.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2021

She puts down the stack of rubrics she’s holding.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden


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