yardstick

Example Sentences

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And where we’ve taken pictures of our children every December since 2009, something of a yardstick for their youth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

The plan unveiled Thursday will be the yardstick for Filosa, an Italian veteran of Fiat Chrysler who took over Stellantis nearly a year ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The group expects both a "high single-digit percentage" fall in "net bookings", its preferred sales yardstick that excludes deferred revenues, and a "high single-digit negative" operating margin.

From Barron's • May 20, 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

In fact, no matter how tiny you make the bits, it is impossible to choose a common yardstick that will measure both the side and the diagonal perfectly: the diagonal is incommensurable with the side.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife