yardstick
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The tests were taken by a sample of teenagers in 91 countries and economies in 2025, and are seen as an important yardstick of how education systems are performing.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Warsh has a preferred way to measure inflation that produces a result nearly a full percentage point lower than the Fed’s currently preferred yardstick.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
Vitinha has already been mentioned several times in this column because he happens to be the yardstick for the best midfielders on the continent.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 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
Using the same yardstick, we see that the diagonal gets...well, almost 34 segments, but it doesn’t come out quite evenly.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
By some Western yardsticks, he suggested, China had arguably had several already.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
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
Since then, he has scored his and others’ predictions against those yardsticks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
Even now the waiters were carrying away our yardsticks to make space for a ballroom floor.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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