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The Logistics Managers’ Index, a monthly survey of supply-chain managers, showed transportation prices increased in May at the fastest rate for any metric in the report’s 10-year history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

The company developed a metric called “Mean Time to Adapt,” which measures how quickly an organization identifies, triages and fixes vulnerabilities once discovered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

There was no public announcement of a rule or metric change at Spotify in March.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

In the 1920s, Schrödinger built on that idea by defining hue, saturation, and lightness within a Riemannian model of color perception, using a metric that describes how people perceive color differences.

From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026

After supper Gilly did her homework, knowing it was useless, that Miss Harris would never see the neat figures, row on row, that proved that Gilly Hopkins had met and mastered the metric system.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson