standards
Example Sentences
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About 600,000 people still get water from systems that state regulators say are failing to meet safe drinking water standards.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
It needed to be private, convenient, and up to the exacting standards of the three-time champions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Many feature lower credit limits, educational tools and approval standards that are more forgiving than those for traditional cards.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
Discretion that is “suitably directed and limited” would “ensure … the sentencing authority is apprised of the information relevant to the imposition of sentence and provided with standards to guide its use of that information.”
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026
In Burry’s view, standards had not just fallen but hit bottom.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
