criteria

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved Aurora’s Principal Design Criteria —a foundational rulebook for the plant’s safety and performance standards—earlier this month.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Those who apply after 6 April but are nearing end of life, or meet the Severe Conditions Criteria, will continue to receive the higher rate.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

Criteria included space, facilities, staff expertise and herd dynamics.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

The analysis also examined how many patients were prescribed at least one drug that the American Geriatrics Society’s Beers Criteria says should be broadly avoided in seniors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Criteria like this can be used to determine how likely it is that sequences of heads and tails or Xs and Os or hits and misses are randomly generated.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos