criterion
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Treating the Lawson criterion as a single unchanging threshold overlooks physical processes that can substantially alter the requirements for ignition.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
She added that no single criterion is weighted above the others and that Aritzia’s employees reflect a range of backgrounds, ages, ethnicities and body types.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
He added that as those benefits "have been phased out or superseded" he expected a "negligible number of applications" under SDC criterion next year.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
"Coolness and summer comfort have become a property criterion in their own right," she said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
But in the writing of scene after scene I was guided by but one criterion: to tell the truth as I saw it and felt it.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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Next season, however, all it would take is being among the top 24 teams as deemed by the 13-member committee, which considers on-field performance, head-to-head results and strength of schedule the primary criteria.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Buildings are assessed across a range of criteria, including design vision, innovation, sustainability, functionality, and the ability to delight users and visitors.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
"We chose Shell because it's an emblematic company. It meets all the criteria," Thales Miola, a lawyer for the Brazilian NGO Instituto Preservar, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
That keeps environmental, social and governance criteria relevant for bond buyers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Some lessons incorporate the arts, but do not incorporate the learning objectives and other criteria that fully integrate them, while others follow a deeper level of integration.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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The plural of phenomenon and criterion are phenomena, criteria, although criterions is sometimes employed.
From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel
It is a sort of extra, having nothing to do with criterions of intelligence or mental development, like the repeater movement in a watch.
From Camp and Trail by Stewart Edward White
Other schools are not criterions for this ramshackle establishment, anyhow.
From Mary Louise by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
They appreciate not the understandings of one another by such manual and muscular criterions.
From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
The people she served were mostly women whose dress, manners, and position in the social world were quoted as criterions.
From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
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