yardstick
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Using mom’s life span as a yardstick puts things in perspective.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Book value, or shareholder equity, has been a good yardstick for Berkshire stock during Buffett’s tenure.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Brent crude, the global yardstick for prices, fell around 13% to $95 a barrel on Wednesday following the cease-fire announcement, still significantly above its roughly $60 level in early January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
The result may not be the yardstick for England.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
The Greeks would figure out the ratio by dividing the line into tiny pieces, using, for example, a standard or yardstick half an inch long.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
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
It was one of the warning lights for technicians who watch such yardsticks for clues about the market’s direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Since then, he has scored his and others’ predictions against those yardsticks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
Cecil, the headwaiter, scanned up and down the yardsticks for somewhere to seat us.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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