yardstick
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A core purpose for accounting standards is so investors have a common yardstick to compare companies across completely different industries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Using mom’s life span as a yardstick puts things in perspective.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 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
She sat up straight, like someone had slipped a yardstick down the back of her bright red business suit.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
By some Western yardsticks, he suggested, China had arguably had several already.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
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
A hundred and fifty mice pushed back from their yardsticks and rose to their feet.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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