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The word criteria traces back to roots meaning what?

criteria

[krahy-teer-ee-uh] / kraɪˈtɪər i ə /






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But he plans to keep one key safeguard in place: Agents wouldn’t be fully autonomous and would only act on specific criteria set by the client.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Next season, however, all it would take is being among the top 24 teams as deemed by the 13-member committee, which considers on-field performance, head-to-head results and strength of schedule the primary criteria.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Access to weight loss drugs on the NHS is governed by strict criteria across the UK.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

“Visibility may depend less on advertising to people and more on being clearly described to agents through specs, structured product data and reviews that match the criteria agents ask about,” Kim said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The circuits are so intimately woven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas


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