criterion

First, we got a “speedy deletion” criterion for A.I. images, allowing editors not to spend a whole week on a deletion discussion.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026

Fewer Lyme disease cases were accrued over the study period than anticipated, and the pre-determined statistical criterion wasn’t met in the primary endpoint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

With those prices, no wonder Luminate seems to have made popularity — and thus financial resources — a core criterion for eligibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

Before the rule took effect in early April, only a third of small-cap listing applicants sought to qualify under Nasdaq’s profitability criterion.

From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025

They are very good at creating a self-enclosed world where the criterion for admission is not the Social Register, but money.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

The NAS says anyone with an autism diagnosis will have been assessed against strict criteria and "have lifelong differences in communication, behaviours and focused interests compared to non-autistic people".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Space Force opened a window for proposals from more companies, but the extremely specific criteria and a challenging timeline kept other potential bidders out of the mix.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

“Two independent doctors evaluated Hoetzlein and each concluded he met the legal criteria for a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity,” Ventura County Dist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

One of the system's architects Frazer Rhodes said the latest alert "really has divided opinion" and the government should set out the criteria for when it will and will not be used.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

This animal was deemed to have met the Department's criteria, and was therefore released this morning into its native habitat.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

It is this sentiment which causes Freethought to take the form of Secularism, and exchanges the verbal distractions of conflicting creeds for the clear criterions of moral truth.

From The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? by George Jacob Holyoake

Once masters of logic, they passed in review the different criterions; first, that of common sense.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert

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

From The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper

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