How to Use gold standard in a Sentence

gold standard

noun
  • Seven to nine hours for healthy adults is the gold standard.
    WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
  • At the time, the B-52 bomber was the gold standard of aerial firepower.
    Brad Lendon, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022
  • But the gold standard of the seat-of-the-pants gardener is the volunteer seedling.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The gold standard draped in blue has won 23 of the last 28 against the Padres and a staggering nine series in a row.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
  • For Nike, the Jordan brand and its ties to Michael Jordan remain the gold standard.
    Jordyn Holman, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Nathan Lewis is the author of three books about gold standard systems.
    Nathan Lewis, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • The issue with using outliers as the gold standard is twofold.
    Grace Staberg, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The guidelines are meant to set a gold standard for the field of transgender health care, and this would be the first update since 2012.
    New York Times, 15 June 2022
  • The diagnostic gold standard is to culture it in a lab from a swab or to have a blood test.
    Amy Bennett Williams, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • Five states require four of them, and most states require at least one gold standard.
    Stephanie Kuzydym, courier-journal.com, 10 May 2023
  • Experts say that kind of curriculum is the gold standard for what should be taught in schools.
    Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Robert Caro’s biographies of LBJ are a true gold standard.
    Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The content was less important than the frequency; the gold standard was four posts a day.
    Jacob Sweet, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The gold standard was abridged during the Great Depression, and in 1971, President Nixon cut the gold link for good.
    Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Before 1914, the financial dominance of the City had rested on the strength of the pound sterling, based in turn on the gold standard.
    Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Canada Goose pretty much has set the gold standard for what a winter coat should be.
    John Thompson, Men's Health, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Hide No state requires all of these gold standards for high school athletes.
    Stephanie Kuzydym, courier-journal.com, 10 May 2023
  • But the other part, what made Pelé the indelible gold standard of the global game, was timing.
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • His 15 majors are second only to Jack Nicklaus and his 18, the gold standard in golf.
    oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The Washington Post’s Michelle Singletary is my gold standard go-to for tips on that.
    Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Wild Alaskan salmon are a gold standard for American seafood.
    Becki Robins, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Since its founding in 1925, Le Creuset has been known for making the gold standard of cookware — and for good reason.
    Kelsey Mulvey, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2022
  • That made foreign investors question the U.S.’s ability to stick with the gold standard.
    Jeffrey Schulze, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • At the same time, Zeidman sees a danger in holding Coleman up as a kind of gold standard.
    Teresa Mathew, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
  • There's no doubting that this is the gold standard against which all other whey supplements are judged.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Polaroids are a party staple these days, and this one from Fujifilm is the gold standard.
    Vanessa Powell, Men's Health, 17 Oct. 2022
  • No one has dominated the gold standard of girls track the past two years than Flanagan’s Jassani Carter.
    Gary Curreri, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2022
  • Getting in shape and looking great for a film role is one thing, but looking and feeling great into your 60s, 70s, and beyond is the new gold standard.
    Ian Douglass, Men's Health, 4 Apr. 2022
  • In toppling a team like the Huskies, who have been the gold standard program for the better part of the last two decades, South Carolina has established itself among the elite.
    Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The standard pullup has been the gold standard for bodyweight exercises for a reason.
    Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 14 Sep. 2022

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