criterion

Example Sentences

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However, the predetermined statistical criterion was not met in the primary endpoint.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

Fewer Lyme disease cases were accrued over the study period than anticipated, and the pre-determined statistical criterion wasn’t met in the primary endpoint.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

The unifying criterion for dementia is that the person has lost independence, Gomperts explains.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2026

If we get to pot four and there is only one group which meets this criterion, pathway two will have to go into it.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

There must be ways of putting nucleic acids together that will function far better—by any criterion we choose—than any human being who has ever lived.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan