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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

Ultimately, the dog is matched with an adopter using the same considered rubric, and the happily ever after ensues.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2025

Below is a rubric for evaluating multicultural music material including the content of the text, notation, and any recording.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Balta added that the rubrics on Harper’s site only pertain to the way current UW and transfer students are evaluated — not incoming freshmen, who in some cases can apply directly to their major.

From Seattle Times Sep. 27, 2023

The team also drew upon Berkeley Lab's expertise and instrumentation to fully characterize their microbial factories by many different rubrics.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2023

"Book banning doesn't fit neatly into the rubrics of left and right politics," reminds Pulitzer prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen.

From Salon Oct. 1, 2022

In addition, rubrics may be based on conventions already discussed in class or a previous reading.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

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

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




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