rubric

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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

“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 believe Harry falls very much into that rubric," Dolan said, "because the scapegoat is not only the one who's perceived to be the villain of the family, but their truth-telling is perceived as betrayal."

From Salon • May 10, 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