measuring stick
Example Sentences
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The ultimate aim of Best Companies for the Future is to offer a useful measuring stick, not a crystal ball.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
It is the playbook we’ve all become familiar with—sizing up the ethical makeup of our fellow man by using the worst thing they’ve ever said as the measuring stick.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
Mayweather has held Pacquiao as a measuring stick since even before he won their “Fight of the Century” by unanimous decision in May 2015 in Las Vegas.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
Similarly, the dispute would shave no more than a few tenths off gross domestic product, the official measuring stick of the economy, they estimate.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026
There was a line running clean ’cross his forehead that was so straight it looked like someone had took a measuring stick then cut along it with a knife.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
