yardstick
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It produces a result that is nearly a full percentage point lower than the Fed’s currently preferred yardstick.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
Book value, or shareholder equity, has been a good yardstick for Berkshire stock during Buffett’s tenure.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Brent crude, the global yardstick for prices, fell around 13% to $95 a barrel on Wednesday following the cease-fire announcement, still significantly above its roughly $60 level in early January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
The result may not be the yardstick for England.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
One morning in 1934, he was perched atop a ladder, testing the electrical tuning coil of Sloan’s X-ray machine by poking at it with a wooden yardstick fitted with a nail at the end.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
By the usual economic yardsticks — such as income, industry and technology — it looks fully developed, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank treat it that way.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
But it occurred to me—while watching people waiting for gas at Costco—that the usual yardsticks don’t apply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
Based on yardsticks such as the price/earnings ratio and enterprise value to free cash flow, the valuation isn’t egregious.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
Even if he did not have a famous writer for a father, Dubus would have plenty of yardsticks against which to measure his achievements, pains and pleasures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
Cecil, the headwaiter, scanned up and down the yardsticks for somewhere to seat us.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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