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
Distributed to paid-in capital, or DPI, measures actual cash returned to fund investors and has become a yardstick for comparing the performance of asset managers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
It produces a result that is nearly a full percentage point lower than the Fed’s currently preferred yardstick.
From Barron's ● May 11, 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
His perch is a section of a sturdy old-fashioned yardstick, triangular in cross-section.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
By the usual economic yardsticks — such as income, industry and technology — it looks fully developed, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank treat it that way.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
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
Since then, he has scored his and others’ predictions against those yardsticks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
Instinctively, I felt that I was lying on my back, not my stomach, but I really was doing neither—most normal yardsticks disappear in space, and I was no more lying than standing or falling.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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