metric
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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
When thieves snatched 12 metric tons of KitKats in transit from Italy to Poland, the company capitalized with some free publicity for one of its most famous brands.
From Barron's • 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
Daniel Zhao, Glassdoor’s chief economist, says this metric is a window into whether workers believe they “can speak up, if the organization is transparent and the speed of communications” between different parts of the organization.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 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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