metric
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But when you start to focus on improving the metric, it often disconnects from the thing you actually care about underneath.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
This “disruption allowance” effectively removes 800,000 metric tons of copper from his global mine supply forecast.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Some calculate the metric aggressively to project strength, while others avoid citing a single headline figure to prevent conflating cash with credit lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Friday's figures showed the labor force participation rate -- a key metric -- had dropped to its lowest level since the height of pandemic-related closures.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
When at last he had finished his calculations, Cavendish announced that the Earth weighed a little over 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds, or six billion trillion metric tons, to use the modern measure.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing metric
This Week in Pop Culture: December 8 -14, 2018
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Measurement and Data, List 2
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for October 2–October 8, 2021
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