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While UBS includes property values in its calculations, financial assets like stocks and bonds accounted for 79% of gross wealth in the U.S., putting it near the top of the rankings for that metric.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
That metric divides an asset’s price by the average of ten years of earnings and adjusted for inflation.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026
A company’s stock price is meaningless compared to its market cap, and it’s a metric that can’t be compared between companies.
From Barron's • Jun. 24, 2026
"We don't look at percentages, we don't actually believe that is the right metric," Deborah Jevans, the chair of the All England Club, told BBC Sport earlier this month.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 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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