yardstick

Party scenes are a yardstick by which I measure the authenticity of a teenage movie — are these characters acting their age, or have they been designed to?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Hours saved is the most common yardstick, yet departments that judge AI by growth are far more likely to report strong returns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The tests were taken by a sample of teenagers in 91 countries and economies in 2025, and are seen as an important yardstick of how education systems are performing.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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

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

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

Cecil, the headwaiter, scanned up and down the yardsticks for somewhere to seat us.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck