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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

Mr. Diamond’s emphasis on common benchmarks for success—a country’s economic growth, a corporation’s profits—leaves unexplored the possibility that each unique leader might harbor his or her own criterion of achievement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Back at Ratchford's office on the third day, he figured a way around the problematic income criterion.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 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

The securities regulator has tightened scrutiny of IPO applications and expanded its vetting criteria, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Of those, Labour said 11 had not met the criteria they demanded.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Using those additional criteria, the estimated proportion of Americans classified as having obesity rises to 75%.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

The United States said on Monday it would remove South Africa and Rwanda from a major Africa-US trade preference programme, citing practices it said were "inconsistent" with the scheme's eligibility criteria.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

With him the criterions of merit are propriety, taste, expediency, and fitness.

From The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper

Consequently it has become evident that the four criterions or standards of judgment by which the human mind reaches its conclusions are faulty and inaccurate.

From Foundations of World Unity by `Abdu'l-Bahá

The proprietor wishes particularly to impress upon the overseer the criterions by which he will judge of his usefullness and capacity.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

These constants, while they vary somewhat with any particular oil or fat, are more applicable to the edible products and are criterions where any adulteration of fat or oil is suspected.

From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by E. G. Thomssen

Certain rot-producing fungi impart to wood characteristic colors which thus become criterions of weakness.

From The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing by Samuel J. Record