yardstick

Although never a yardstick to always take seriously, the reaction on social media has been more extreme.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

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: a stack of starting lines creeping up the street, till someone brought out a yardstick and did it right.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

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

It was one of the warning lights for technicians who watch such yardsticks for clues about the market’s direction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025

Since then, he has scored his and others’ predictions against those yardsticks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024

I took new interest in the torpedo-fish with their crackling shocks; in the turtles that paced beside yardsticks; in the mice sliced end to end, that their gestation might be viewed.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson