yardstick
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And where we’ve taken pictures of our children every December since 2009, something of a yardstick for their youth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
The group expects both a "high single-digit percentage" fall in "net bookings", its preferred sales yardstick that excludes deferred revenues, and a "high single-digit negative" operating margin.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Vitinha has already been mentioned several times in this column because he happens to be the yardstick for the best midfielders on the continent.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Book value, or shareholder equity, has been a good yardstick for Berkshire stock during Buffett’s tenure.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
I saw Mr. Alums point the yardstick at someone somewhere in the class and say, “Perhaps you’d like to finish the introduction, I think you know our guest quite well.”
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
But it occurred to me—while watching people waiting for gas at Costco—that the usual yardsticks don’t apply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
Based on yardsticks such as the price/earnings ratio and enterprise value to free cash flow, the valuation isn’t egregious.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
Even if he did not have a famous writer for a father, Dubus would have plenty of yardsticks against which to measure his achievements, pains and pleasures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
Among the yardsticks, the Border Patrol said it detected record numbers of convicted criminals in fiscal 2023, which just concluded.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
Even now the waiters were carrying away our yardsticks to make space for a ballroom floor.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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