standard
Example Sentences
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In 2016, he went viral after delivering a lecture in which he summarised the 34 elite universities that set their own admission standards, rather than follow national cut-off scores.
From BBC
In July regulators will publish new standards, including definitions for what constitutes a semisolid, a “solid-liquid” or all solid-state battery.
“But when you sum them all up together, it’s actually quite a substantial deviation from that standard.”
From Barron's
Netflix’s standard subscription will now cost an extra dollar a month for users in the U.S., while the price of its standard ad-free and premium subscriptions has each gone up by $2.
From Barron's
"Obviously when you are in public office it is a higher standard and we are all learning on the way."
From BBC
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