yardstick

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

Ubisoft forecast Wednesday "net bookings", its preferred revenue yardstick, of 250 million euros for the first quarter of its 2026-27 financial year, well short of the 285.5 million expected among analysts quoted by Bloomberg.

From Barron's ● May 21, 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

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

Mr. Alums slammed the yardstick on his desk and the class got real, real quiet.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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

Instinctively, I felt that I was lying on my back, not my stomach, but I really was doing neither—most normal yardsticks disappear in space, and I was no more lying than standing or falling.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins