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rubric

[roo-brik] / ˈru brɪk /


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Situations that get bundled together under this rubric include airlines cutting flights, Asian governments requiring home-working to save fuel, rising EV sales and high energy costs sapping overall economic activity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

On Substack recently, Nicholas Thompson, the CEO of the Atlantic, shared a writer’s account of using Claude to build a custom editing rubric while instructing the A.I.,

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

“It’s about transparency. It’s objectivity. It’s being able to identify the conflicts of interest, mitigate or eliminate the ones that are substantial, and then disclose—because our federal securities rubric is a disclosure-based regime,” Dahiya says.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

“If I did this for your client, I’ll have to do it for every single defendant who was indicted when Mr. Essayli was acting under the rubric of acting U.S. attorney, correct?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

I devised a bizarre and ever-evolving rubric by which I measured his love for me, and when he failed to meet it, I became paranoid.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

I have also seen the effect of replacing state test scores, grades and attendance as admission rubrics for middle school and high school with lottery numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The Kobe University finding challenges conventional approaches to test preparation and scoring rubrics.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2024

It includes recent rubrics — gleaned from public records — used by admissions committees for the university’s computer science, informatics, public health and business school departments.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

American singles have no shortage of rubrics they can turn to for determining romantic compatibility.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2022

She puts down the stack of rubrics she’s holding.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden


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