yardstick
Example Sentences
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But it occurred to me—while watching people waiting for gas at Costco—that the usual yardsticks don’t apply.
Based on yardsticks such as the price/earnings ratio and enterprise value to free cash flow, the valuation isn’t egregious.
From Barron's
But we all must decide, he added, whether we will use money “as a tool to live a better life” or, tragically, “as a yardstick of status to measure yourself against others.”
From MarketWatch
But we all must decide, he added, whether we will use money “as a tool to live a better life” or, tragically, “as a yardstick of status to measure yourself against others.”
From MarketWatch
Meanwhile, the price of Brent crude, the global yardstick, edged up.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
